As embarrassing as it sounds, I've never really understood the advantage of having a personal site over the possible downsides.
On one hand, if you're a professional, you have a reputation to build, but on the other hand anonymity never really was a problem for me professionally.
At any rate, I'm considering giving making a personal site a try, I just am not convinced what the pros and cons really are. This actually may be hard to ask of others, as I know many of us here do prefer to remain anonymous, to greater or lesser extent.
I appreciate anyone whom does share their site, since I'm curious what a personal/professional programmer site might look like. Or if anyone whom just has solid advice about my questions is welcome to share it.
I know many of us just use github, more or less, as their means of building a professional reputation--but a part of me distrusts social media, even if it's github of all things.
But I'm also curious about what stack was used to make your site. I've looked at static site generators, but none I found felt right to me. I guess it's one of those cases where if there is no clear winner, then the problem hasn't really been solved yet.
I write mostly about Python and everything related to it. I decided to create a blog because I wanted to improve my writing skills, English is not my first language and writing in English would be an opportunity to improve it, hopefully.
I'm trying to be consistent and I release two articles a month, one every other week.
The first version I used Hugo but I noticed that I was spending a long time tweaking it and not writing a single word. Then I found https://hashnode.com and gave it a go. They are a blogging as a service and it abstracts away most of the things that I was fighting with. The downsides is that it's not fully configurable but that's the price I decided to pay. But for basic stuff like domain name, analytics, newsletter it works out the box.