I’ve done it before and it looks like I’m doing it again. It’s the right time to move my personal blog from WordPress to a static site for simplicity, portability, and performance.

Getting my simple web application started and then deployed has been an excellent learning experience. And thank goodness for the fine documentation and guides to the frameworks I’ve tried. As a bonus, it’s all almost free!

It’s looking more and more like I’ll be using Laravel in preference to Rails, Django, and Masonite. Maybe Laravel isn’t ‘better’ from every point of view, but it seems ‘better’ enough for me.

Ruby on Rails is well known for its philosophy of convention over configuration. And there are definitely benefits to that approach. But are there also significant disadvantages?