Upgrading My Blog: From PHP to Node.js, Growing Step by Step

I moved the blog from PHP to Node.js. It was the biggest change I had made to it since the beginning.

The reason was simple enough: I was never really comfortable with PHP, but JavaScript was what I used every day. Node felt like the same language, just in a different place. I had been putting the switch off for about half a year, then decided to use the two weeks before the D2 Developer Conference to actually finish it. Good or bad, I needed it to be usable.

Working through Node and MongoDB taught me things I had not expected. I started to understand how routing actually works, and HTTP itself — 200, 301, 304, 403, 404 — started to feel like a real working vocabulary instead of just status codes I had memorized. That part felt good. At the very least, I added a few more things I actually understood.

There are still bugs. Some pages are rough. But that is where it stands right now, and I would rather put something real here than keep it in half-finished state indefinitely.