new blog setup

Been looking to learn NextJS and personal blog was the perfect place to start.

my previous looked nice (simple) but was a file based static generator and was a pain to manage assets and post content plus wasn't realt able to add simple stuff like comments, my travel logs etc

What i built

NextJS based backend app (app.taggy.dev/portal) and a frontend app that looks pretty much the same as previous website but all powered from database instead of files.

Couple of really nice features i was able to build

1. Vinyl that was previosuyly on a clunky google sheets to html render and a lot of metadata was being manually managed like release id , discogs id etc. A simple backebd +discogs api meant i could simply maintain my collections on discogs and things would just keep syncing with all the metadata
2. Food that was previously json to markdown based meant hard to manage and add on the go. Moved to database and looks much better with all the nice filters etc.
3. Comments & Reaction - Fun stuff!

While it was easy to build this over a weekend, its a lot of work to get basic crud up and running and in my humble opinion rails + turbo rails works mostlt just fine and i dont think I'm going to switch out my main stack for giki.ai for nextJS.

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