Having a personal site is a great playground for learning tons of skills. Brian Wisti discusses the benefits of running a his own blog over the years.

Links:

• Random Geekery
• Jamstack
• Eleventy
• Netlify
• Plausible Analytics
• pytest
• Beautiful Soup
• pyinvoke - Invoke!
• rsync
• Internet Archive : archive.org
• Rich
• Statamic
• jamstack.org
• A static site generator should be your next language learning project

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