I wanted a place to put my project notes, so I made this blog.
Before this, my stuff was everywhere. Modeling paper in one folder, slides in another, some code on GitHub, some notes in my phone. I just wanted one place to dump things and organize them a bit.
I didn't want to pay for hosting though, so I looked around for a cheap way to do this.
I found an open-source blog project on GitHub and used it as a base instead of writing everything from scratch.
For hosting, I used Cloudflare Workers since the free tier is enough for a small blog like this. The only thing I actually paid for was the domain, which I got from Alibaba Cloud for about 8 RMB. So total cost was basically 8 RMB.
It wasn't just clone-and-deploy, there was some configuring involved.
I forked the GitHub project and changed a few settings to make it mine.
Then deployed it through Cloudflare Workers.
After that I pointed my domain to it and set up the DNS records, which took a bit of trial and error since I hadn't done this before.
Once it was working I just started writing. Added titles, tags, summaries for each post, nothing fancy.
Turns out a website is more than just a page, there's the code part, the deployment part, domain stuff, DNS records, all of that.
Also realized you don't need to spend a lot to build something usable. Using an open-source project plus free-tier hosting got me most of the way there.
Site's pretty basic right now. Might clean up the design later or add more sections, we'll see. For now it's just somewhere I write about whatever I'm working on, modeling stuff, coding projects, random tech things.
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