Welcome to the new Brandons.app
The days of having a personal website are gone - replaced with Substack, Facebooks, LinkedIns, etc. I, for one, hate this trend. As a digital libertarian, I continually try to escape the trappings of corporate platforms whenever possible. For the last 6 years, Brandon's app has been running on my own "Twitterβ-inspired platform built on Vue, then on SvelteKit. However, as with most things you build yourself, there's a lot of management and time required to keep it up and running.
Sadly, I've been a bad steward of keeping my own platform updated, so I have decided to switch over to
Ghost. Why ghost? Because Wordpress is a god damn shit show - and this is coming from someone who's been a Wordpress fan boy since the early days and even published a book (albeit a stupid ass book) but published never the less.
On top of Wordpress trying to become an "everything to everyone, thus a nothing to no one", I found that the simplicity of Ghost and it's focus on being an open-source Substack style, very appealing.
2024 - Astro.build
2020 - Nuxt
2018 - Vanilla
2015 - Vanilla
2011 - Wordpress
2009 - Wordpress
2004 - Custom Coldfusion Blog! LOL
2002 - Custom HTML
So, join me as I launch my 2025 strategy of offering up more content, better insights and overall trying to capture and share what I learn.