Prelude
Finally, I've written my "first post" on my own website. Counting on my fingers, it's been almost three years since I started transitioning into tech. During these three years, I've thought about building a personal website countless times—but every single attempt ended halfway and was quietly abandoned.
To be honest, it was laziness 🙃. Or more precisely: I always had too many ideas. I would start by planning a long list of features, and before even writing a few lines of code, I'd successfully talk myself out of it.
Back then, I kept telling myself: "I want to build everything from scratch."
But the reality of switching careers is that I neither had unlimited time nor strong full-stack skills. As a result, the development timeline kept stretching longer and longer—until the whole thing was eventually dropped.
The Spark
One day, while casually browsing the internet, I came across yuanji's personal blog. (I only realized while writing this post that the blog's interface has completely changed 🤣—personally, I preferred the old design.) I was immediately drawn to that blog-sharing vibe. After reading many of the author's posts, I finally decided to give it a real try and build my own blog using the static site generator Hugo.
I started with Hugo and used the PaperMod theme as a base. After about two months of work, I had to admit it: the design didn't look great… and the features were pretty limited as well.
So it ended up looking like this:
Later on, I accidentally discovered lxchapu's website and instantly fell in love with it. Luckily, the author had shared the theme template, so I forked the GitHub repository and began personalizing it based on that template. Honestly, having a ready-made template gave me so much more motivation 🥹—I'm really grateful for that.
What's Next
The website is still under active development. I want to add more of my own features and create more page templates. But for now, the most important thing is this:
get the current version deployed and online.
Once I see it truly running in the real world, I know I'll be much more motivated to keep improving and refining this little corner of mine ✨.