Steps to recreate my blog
July 16, 2025

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