Hi! This is me Khalil. Even though this isn’t actually my first post in this website, I would like to say thanks to everyone who visits this website.

In this post, I want to tell a brief story how I managed to develop this website and my life after graduating.

Background

My initial intention in developing this website was to share my thoughts and reviews. Not only that, I also wanted to practice my software engineering skills, which wasn’t easy back then because I didn’t fully embrace software engineering when I was in university :’(.

It all started around four months ago, I saw an X post from @aria_ghora, in which he posted about stuck loss when training a neural network. You can see that here. I really enjoyed reading that, and it inspired me to do so. The second person who inspired me to build this web was a fictional character from The Big Bang Theory named Sheldon Cooper. He also created a blog site in which he writes everything about him, from his bathroom schedules to his enemy lists. Surely I promise I wouldn’t do the same :)

After convincing myself to build a web, I immediately browsed what tech stacks I could use, and my first thought was React. Why? Because I’d been studying it for 2 months since March 2024, so I didn’t want to make all of my hard work useless. But after working on it for 2 days, I thought I couldn’t do this. This library is too sophisticated, and I didn’t want to waste my time just configuring it. Checked?❌

Then I tried NextJS, the result was the same. I didn’t believe that I would finish this web if I didn’t know how to work it. Checked? ❌

Finally, when I was searching for videos on YouTube, there was a video recommendation from Fireship. He suggested that I could try Hugo. There is also a brief tutorial, and it was very easy to read. Not only, do I love the simplicity, but also the pace that it needed to ship it. Checked? ✅

What’s New: Now With CMS!

Initially, this site was fully static—everything had to be written in Markdown and committed manually. While that worked, it wasn’t very practical, especially when I wanted to write on the go or from different devices.

So I decided to integrate a CMS (Content Management System) into the site!

This is a big step for me because it combines functionality and ease—two things I really care about. Whether I’m using my phone, tablet, or laptop, I now have full control over my content.

(And don’t worry, it’s still all version-controlled behind the scenes 😉)

Update 29th July 2025

Future update

1. Add a search engine dedicated for the blog
   Maybe just put it at the end of the page.
2. Try again to make this blog available on google search engine using google search console
3. Add indexing based on months