While I was hoping this website would build itself, it ended up taking a good amount of fine-tuning! I wanted to share how I built this blog and a few of the challenges I encountered.

Background

My setup for this website is:

domain and DNS managed on GoDaddy

code lives in a private GitHub repository (should I make this public?)

static site written in React using Gatsby

site deployed using the free tier on Netlify

While Dev.to and Hashnode have been helpful to get me flowing on my technical writing, I really wanted a minimal blog over which I exercised full control. I wanted to be able style blockquotes the way I liked.…