Yup, that's right, and I'm not sorry either. Let me take you on a journey of building my portfolio and a few things I've learned along the way.
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I'm personally using a static site generator for my site and the initial setup and design changes have taken days to get going. I feel your pain; however, with a static site generated and served through github pages with a simple CICD job, I could quickly revert the code base or replace it with my local copy.
The sentiment of focusing on the content and not the presentation is 💯 on point. Good luck making it work for you and your career.
I love the "not sorry" attitude towards WordPress.
Approved. Whatever works, right? Developers as a whole have a peculiar fetish around tools rather than what they can get done with them.
Who cares that you don't write your own website - in fact, you could argue that you're actually sending a message to the world about your priorities as a developer.
I came to this realisation too. I got ridiculed for not having a lot of projects on Github and then I did, not one employer has looked at my profile (I still have some stuff though), I setup a simple ghost blog and applied all the modern practices I could and use that as my talking point to show I do continuous deployment etc etc. In the end, it is my writing they notice.
Definitely! A team might checkout your stack, but in the end, where is your contributions more noticed? Go there! 🙂