[rchaud]

> Why did devs get obsessed with a deeply complex jamstack type thing to do even incredibly simple sites?

Because devs don't think of websites like a place for personal expression; to them, personal websites are usually roughly structured wikis of stuff they've learned that would be mostly hard to read or follow for others.

So they geek out over the details of the blog infrastructure. If instead of a website, they were asked to draw something, they'd focus on the sturdiness of the paper.

[packetlost]

This seems like the correct answer. I can't think of how many times I've been like "I should publicize all my notes" and then I restart the cycle of looking into blogging or note-taking/wiki software (with publishing options like Notion). I'm not much into writing long-form content, but I journal and log pretty consistently. It's always the "distill this body of knowledge into an easily consumable article-style thing" that I lose interest, both because it's hard but also because I feel the return on investment is super low. I already get the benefits of my notes, and blogs are too 1-way to get meaningful feedback unless it goes "viral" on a link aggregator like HN or Lobsters. Maybe I just underestimate how much feedback is typically given or over estimate the difficulty in making it to the front page...