This Website

I wanted to have my own website… but how?

After hearing about services like Hostinger and others for a while, I decided to invest a bit of money in my career portfolio and create another way for companies and coworkers to learn more about me.

I got a preview of a possible website generated by one of these platforms, and it would have cost around €95 for two years, including the domain, email, and drag-and-drop customization.

Not a bad deal, but I asked Gemini and ChatGPT for a second opinion. The consensus was that it wasn’t a bad price, but I could get the same result for much less if I built it myself.

So, I could save a few euros and learn something new? Hell yeah!

The stack

After doing a bit more research, I settled on the following stack:

• Astro for web development
• Tailwind CSS for styling
• Cloudflare for DNS
• Vercel for automatic deployments

With this setup, every change I pushed to my repository would be deployed automatically and served on my own domain.

Later on, I realized that Vercel’s free tier could potentially become a limitation. It includes restrictions on edge requests and bandwidth. I didn’t expect to hit those limits with regular visitors (of which I expect there will be… very few), but a malicious bot attack could have caused problems. So I eventually migrated to Cloudflare Workers & Pages, which provides essentially the same experience while offering stronger protections and virtually unlimited bandwidth.

Let me be clear: I didn’t manually write the code for every part of this website. I’m not a frontend engineer, so I relied on AI to help me along the way.

So this website is just a couple of prompts… huh?

No! Unfortunately for me, it wasn’t that simple.

All the text you can read here and anywhere else was written by me, first in english then translated (with automatic tools, yeah) to spanish, for me to review later. For the code, I spent several weeks tweaking small details, providing examples of designs I liked, and gradually shaping the website into what you can see today. Along the way, I learned a bit of Astro, some JavaScript, and tried to follow good web development practices whenever possible.

Can we see the code?

Well, you’ll be able to do that in the future! Right now, I think it still needs a bit more polishing to make sure it follows best practices. I’ll make the repository public and add the link here soon—pinky promise.