Moving Forward!

It's time to move away from WordPress.

This blog and much of my web development career has been "proudly powered by WordPress" for the last decade and then some, but last spring I completed my final integration project on the platform. I've been happily building code-based solutions in other platforms and frameworks since. In the interim, I had been keeping up with the latest updates to this site, but hadn't actively pursued rebuilding it using something else because, frankly, I just haven't felt up to it.

The recent legal battles between WP Engine and Automattic, and in particular, what I feel are antagonistic communications and actions which threaten the safety and stability of the WordPress community, give me the impetus I need to finally port my data and build a new home for myself.

For now, it means this static placeholder site written in good-old HTML and CSS, but longer-term, it means tinkering with something new – perhaps building upon my growing knowledge around Laravel, adopting a smaller but similarly-storied CMS like Drupal, or perhaps even exploring a completely different language altogether. I don't know what the next iteration of my personal site will bring, but I'm looking forward to trying something new and moving away from the chaos and drama. It's literally all I want for 2025, in every aspect of my life.

Here's to new adventures with code. I hope to be back soon writing about all the fun and interesting challenges I've been facing in my last year and a half with Laravel.