Bay Phillips

Blog for an engineering leader based out in Denver, Colorado.

Remaking the Blog to be Relevant

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A tale as old as time, but it's finally time to update my website to be relevant for 2024 and beyond. The last time I did this was just before I started working at Dropbox, which also happened to be right before Covid hit in the States. Quite a lot has changed since then.

Technical Changes

Sticking to just the technical details, the changes are:

  • Gatsby -> Next.js
  • UIKit -> Tailwindcss
  • Contentful -> Sanity.io
  • AWS S3 -> Vercel
  • CircleCI -> Vercel
  • Cloudfront -> Cloudflare

The biggest theme being a lot less effort on my end to maintain and support this website to make writing on it far easier. I also wanted it to be "up to date" with a lot of what the latest trends tend to be. Whether or not there's longevity in that decision is still to be determined.