I Started a Blog

This weekend, I launched my own blog. I wanted a place where I could organize my thoughts and share them.

Why not X?

If all I wanted was to share my thoughts, X might seem like enough. But when I post on X, I feel like my thoughts get buried under everyone else's posts in that vast sea. X also makes it hard to look back on what I used to think, and hard to search. So I wanted a tool separate from X.

Why not note or Ameba Blog?

If I just wanted to write a blog, there are services like note and Ameba Blog, both popular blogging platforms in Japan. But neither was really on my list. With note, I had a contrarian feeling of "Why start now, of all times?" With Ameba Blog, I had a feeling that is hard to put into words, something like "Ameba Blog, now?" Another reason was that both seemed to offer little freedom or room for customization.

Why not WordPress?

I didn't choose WordPress either. In October 2026, a critical vulnerability was found in PHP, the programming language WordPress runs on, and many websites around the world were temporarily taken offline (BBC article (opens in a new tab)). This made me uneasy about anything that runs on PHP. I also thought that if I ran WordPress myself, I would have to rush to apply patches every time something like this happened.

Why build it myself?

I had always wanted to build my own blog with technologies I'm interested in. Now that AI has made development faster, I can build one in a short time. So I struck while the iron was hot and launched it in a single weekend.

What's next

On this blog, I'll write about things I've made, things I've looked into, and things I've been thinking about.