I have been running this blog on WordPress for the better part of a decade. It served me well — it is where I wrote about my first mechanical keyboard, my Fortnite highlights phase, and the time I dragged my mates to Boracay. But over the years, it started feeling heavier than it needed to be.
Why I moved on
Two things finally pushed me to look elsewhere:
Performance
WordPress does a lot. Most of it, I was not using. Plugins I had installed years ago were still sitting there doing nothing except slowing things down. Page loads were not terrible, but they were not great either — and for a simple personal blog, they should be.
Security
Keeping WordPress secure is basically a part-time job. Plugin updates, core updates, the constant background anxiety about vulnerabilities. I have got enough on my plate without babysitting my blog security stack.
The new setup
I have migrated everything over to EmDash — a modern CMS built on Astro and Cloudflare. It is fast, lightweight, and honestly just refreshing to work with. No plugin bloat, no PHP, no database to babysit.
The migration itself was surprisingly painless. All 38 posts (some going back to 2015) made the trip intact. There is something satisfying about putting old content on a clean new foundation.
What is next
Honestly? I just want to write more. That has always been the point of this blog — not the platform it runs on. WordPress was fine for getting started, but Emdash feels like the right tool for where I am at now.
Here is to more posts, fewer security patches.
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