Steps to recreate my blog

July 16, 2025

Steps to recreate my blog

My situation

  • TillCarlos.com is a sveltekit page, which I couldn't update any more (framework churn, oh boy)
  • Our page over at statsaware.com is nextjs, which works great.
  • My current page was build by a frontend dev in my team, and I want to do this myself now.

Yes, my blog developer will lose his job.

Just kidding: he already works on more difficult things.K

So, now it's on me. I'll fire up Claude Code and get started.

My goals

  • Keep my old blog posts intact
  • Keep a bank of LLM input (what I wrote myself)
  • Convention over configuration
  • Make the new page fast, with minimal coding
  • Do it all alone, don't rely on anyone (I'm a developer, that helps)

Anti-goals

  • No need to be fancy / pretty
  • Discard old slides, they never worked well

Process:

  • Create a new git repository
  • Copy ONE blog post over
  • Add a very standard Nextjs page (with all new packages: tailwind 4 + nextjs)
  • Make a script to convert older posts