From Notion to Statamic

A little story of nerdy change, I love playing around with different tech, and being a big Notion fan, it felt natural to use it as the publishing system for my personal website for quite some time.

Early last year, I set up this cool integration between Notion & Vercel.

When I crafted a new post inside a Notion page, it triggered Vercel through APIs, and voilà, a new blog entry was born. You can read about that setup here.

Time for a Change

As much as I loved the Notion setup, the occasional slowness and the images playing hide-and-seek got me thinking. As an experimental proof of concept, it was good fun, but I didn't want to be constantly troubleshooting missing images.

Hello, Statamic

Enter Statamic. It's not just a change in tools; it's a shift in perspective. Statamic, a flat-file CMS, No more waiting for pages to load or wondering if the images will make an appearance. (at least for now it is working pretty well ??)

So now what?

Getting Statamic up and running on my VPS is probably worth a post or two on its own; far from plug and play, let me tell you. But hey, that is where the real learning happens, right?

And, now that I've got a site that feels like it's on a caffeine high, I guess it's about time I put it to good use and actually start adding things to it on a more regular basis????