While I was hoping this website would build itself, it ended up taking a good amount of fine-tuning! I wanted to share how I built this blog and a few of the challenges I encountered. Background My setup for this website is: domain and DNS managed on GoDaddy code lives in a private GitHub repository (should I make this public?) static site written in React using Gatsby site deployed using the free tier on Netlify While Dev.to and Hashnode have been helpful to get me flowing on my technical writing, I really wanted a minimal blog over which I exercised full control. I wanted to be able style blockquotes the way I liked. I wanted the blog to reflect the From Scratch ethos that less is better. The final straw: when I realized I was missing out on potential SEO improvements by not publishing my writing directly to fromscratchcode.com . Thus this silly blog that I’m moderately proud of was born!…