welcome to the new blog
Published on Apr 17, 2026
hey,
if you're reading this, you subscribed at some point.
maybe it was the old blog.
maybe it was something i wrote that landed in your feed.
either way, you're here now, and i want to tell you what changed.
i blew up my old blog
the old blog was fine.
it worked.
it had features.
it had api routes.
it had logic everywhere.
but it stopped being a blog a long time ago.
it became infrastructure.
i was spending more time maintaining it than writing for it.
every new post meant something else could break.
every spike in traffic meant a bigger invoice for edge function calls and cpu time.
and i kept telling myself i'd fix it.
optimize it.
clean it up.
but i never did.
because it didn't need to be fixed.
it needed to be killed.
so i killed it.
what i built instead
this new one is called blahg 2.0.
the design is neo-brutalist.
raw borders.
stark contrast.
no visual noise.
it is the kind of design that doesn't apologize for what it is.
i liked that.
the features are minimal on purpose.
a feed.
an rss feed.
an admin portal for managing articles, newsletters, and tags.
a newsletter archive so nothing gets lost.
that's it.
no recommendation engine.
no complex personalization.
no infrastructure i have to babysit.
just writing.
it's open source
this one is on github.
github.com/004Ongoro/blahg-2.0
the reason is simple.
every developer at some point needs a place to document things.
most of them end up building a blog from scratch.
most of those blogs end up overengineered.
because that's what happens when you build for fun and lose track of what you're building.
i made those mistakes already.
you don't have to.
and because it's open source, we can correct each other.
ship together.
keep it pointed at what matters.
what to expect here
i write about software.
the things i'm building.
the things that broke.
the trade-offs i made and whether they were worth it
technology(new and old) - just programmer stuff.
not tutorials.
not hot takes for engagement.
just what i actually run into as a developer working on real things.
if that's useful to you, stick around.
if a post isn't for you, the next one might be.
the blog is live at dev.ongoro.top.
thanks for being here.
george