This post was supposed to be released way earlier, but eh.
As you may already know, this site uses Kirby. I first heard about Kirby from a fellow blogger and a big inspiration for me - Kev Quirk.
Before Kirby, I was using Hugo (a static site generator) as a foundation for this site. It had one big problem for me - it wasn't made for much customization. It's a pick-a-theme-and-write type of SSG. At least that is how I felt using it.
And as you may notice if you visit this site semi-frequently, I update this website very often. So you can feel how much pain I felt updating every single template in the theme a thousand times and pushing and pulling commits...
Kirby also allows me to write my templates from scratch. it was also straightforward and a ton of fun to migrate the hugo-bearblog theme I was using before to Kirby.
Another amazing thing I love about Kirby is that you can write articles from the Panel (yes, it has a panel). It has made it easier and frankly more motivating to write blog posts than writing them in VS Code.
Kirby also has a ton of plugins, some of which I use (for the reading time, RSS, and soon-to-be Guestbook 👀) and features that extend its functionality beyond what I even need.
Their forums are also very helpful in solving problems I (rarely) have. Kirby's PHP syntax is also simple to learn and later troubleshoot.
They are also very understanding about students and give out discounts/licenses to people and open-source projects who need them.
This was Day 4 of #100DaysToOffload