I've been running this blog on WordPress for the better part of a decade. It served me well — it's where I wrote about my first mechanical keyboard, my Fortnite highlights phase, and the time I dragged my mates to Boracay. But over the years, it started feeling heavier than it needed to be.
Why I moved on
Two things finally pushed me to look elsewhere.
Performance: WordPress does a lot. Most of it, I wasn't using. Plugins I'd installed years ago were still sitting there doing nothing except slowing things down. Page loads weren't terrible, but they weren't great either — and for a simple personal blog, they should be.
Security: keeping WordPress secure is basically a part-time job. Plugin updates, core updates, the constant background anxiety about vulnerabilities. I've got enough on my plate without babysitting a security stack.
The new setup
I've migrated everything over to EmDash — a modern CMS built on Astro and Cloudflare. It's fast, lightweight, and honestly just refreshing to work with. No plugin bloat, no PHP, no database to babysit.
The migration itself was surprisingly painless. All 38 posts (some going back to 2015) made the trip intact. There's something satisfying about putting old content on a clean new foundation.
What's next
Honestly? I just want to write more. That's always been the point of this blog — not the platform it runs on. WordPress was fine for getting started, but EmDash feels like the right tool for where I'm at now.
Here's to more posts and fewer security patches.
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