I rebuilt my blog all by myself

I'm officially a self-built blogger. Previously, I was using Pika, and I cannot overstate how awesome that product is. I really loved using it, and I found it hard to tear myself away. If you're starting an indie blog/newsletter in 2026, I would really urge you to consider Pika. Having said that, I am a tinkerer at heart. And, having seen so many wonderful hand-built websites on the indie web, I had to scratch my itch. What you're now looking at is my brand-new, hand-built blog website. What I used The website is built using a static site generator called Eleventy (11ty). It's great, once you get over the learning curve. I love that I can write my blog posts and pages using Markdown or HTML. It's super lightweight, and I'm very happy with it so far. Continuing the lightweight theme, I used Pico CSS, which provides a very minimal set of components and styles to get you started. I've customised it with a few layout choices of my own. Look at me writing CSS! This was my first time…