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Building a blog without a CMS using Claude Code: lessons learned

DEV Community·Odilon HUGONNOT·6 months ago
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The blog you're reading right now was built in a single conversation with Claude Code , Anthropic's CLI, in about 30 minutes. No all-nighter, no purchased template, no WordPress. One working session in the terminal. Here's exactly how it went — real code, real commands, and what almost went wrong.

Why add a blog to a portfolio?

My portfolio web-developpeur.com does its job: showcasing my background and projects. But a static site has its limits from an SEO standpoint. Google loves fresh content, pages that answer real questions, sites that evolve.

The blog's goal: build a semantic cluster around the portfolio.

Articles on the technologies I use (Golang, PHP, Vue.js, DevOps)

Concrete lessons learned from real projects

Content I'd want to write anyway

Each article = a real indexable URL, with its own meta and Open Graph tags. No database, no CMS, no maintenance.

Why not WordPress?

A legitimate instinct. But for this use case, it's using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.…

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