The stack of this blog

TL;DR: Gatsby.js as the underlying blog software, Talkyard for comments, Fathom for website analytics and Vercel for hosting.

The site platform

This site is a static site built using Gatsby.

Pros:

• A static site is golden in terms of deployment, hosting and SEO
• React allows for great flexibility

Cons:

• Requires some tweaking and configuration for some basic stuff, like code formatting.
• GraphQL (including adding custom fields to the post filters) takes some time to get used to

Comments provider

Talkyard.

Pros:

• Cares about user privacy

Analytics

Fathom Analytics.

Pros:

• Cares about user privacy

Disclaimer: The above link to Fathom Analytics is an affiliate link.

Web hosting

Vercel.

Pros:

• Less than ten clicks from logging in to git-based production-domain deploys is amazing!

Cons:

• Private submodules are not supported for git-based deploys. However, there is a workaround.