June 20, 2026/302 words/2 min read

One Year In

A year after launch, the blog has a new domain and a redesign.

A year ago, almost to the day, I put up the first post here. It was about ditching my custom setup for Next.js so I could stop maintaining the boring parts by hand. A few posts later, the blog is still standing, which is more than I can say for most things I start on a weekend.

I recently moved off the old .sh and onto rbxn.eu. I wanted something less esoteric that felt a bit more like mine, and it was available.

I also redesigned the whole thing. I rushed the first layout so I could start writing, and it looked like it. This time I spent more time on the type and spacing. I also made moving around the site less clumsy. There's a proper command palette for jumping around, and search actually works now that fuse.js is doing the heavy lifting. The code blocks finally look right too!

Under the hood it's still simple, which I'm happy about. Posts are still MDX files in a folder, so I write and commit, then Vercel does the rest. I have no interest in a CMS. A database and admin panel would be overkill for what's essentially a super small project. When I want to change something, it makes sense to open the repo, not a dashboard.

The other, less visible change is that I actually started maintaining it. For a long time the blog was write-only. I'd publish a post and never look at it again. Lately I've been going back through the old ones to fix things and tighten the writing. I also deleted the one post I genuinely couldn't stand. I'm trying to treat the blog like something I keep around instead of a dumping ground for my thoughts.

Let's check back next year and see what I broke!