My blog thru the years (a glowup? 🌟)
A review of the how my blog has changed over the years.
Well it's that time of the month, time to design my personal blog!
- Me as a developer 🤷♂️
My first ever personal blog was created using WordPress on my university provided student servers - the WordPress site did not allow the installation of any type of custom theme, so I stuck with the default university theme.
Unfortunately I don't have any pictures of this first site and to be honest I never wrote more than a single "Hello World" post 👻, but I created this site somewhere in the 2016-2017 timeframe.
2017
The next known iteration of my site was again created as a custom WordPress theme, and my domain name was nutsboltsandcodes.com. I know, I know ... what a weird name. But back in the day I was very much into mechanical engineering/3D printing and planned to write about a variety a topics (a trend that continues).
I wrote maybe a dozen posts on this blog, and one went semi-viral in my small circle. I think it was titled "10 Signs You Went to NMSU"
2018
Unfortunately I don't have any screenshots of the site design I did in 2018, mostly because I don't think I ever published a single article.
2019
In 2019 I launched a version of the site design I had been kicking around my head for a while, I finally had the design skills to pull it off (thanks Adam and Steve!). This design lived from early 2019 until around May of 2021.
2020-2021
Before launching the current design I went down a couple of fun roads, here are two of my favorite designs that never made it production.
This is my space theme (I might still ship this one day 🚀)
This was my Laracon inspired design
Current
I launched the latest version in May of 2021 and I combined several things from all my previous designs, let's see how long this one sticks around.
