Build it as a system, not pages

The fastest way to regret a personal site is to hardcode it.

The principle#

If content will grow, it's a system: a data model, a store, dynamic rendering, and an authoring path. A blog is a blog system — create a post, it persists, it appears.

The four axes#

Every feature picks one value per axis and reuses shared machinery:

• Access — public / authed / allowlist / owner
• Data — static / db / external
• Telemetry — none / pageview / events
• Rendering — page / api / both

// visibility is enforced server-side; gated rows never reach the client
const posts = await listVisiblePosts();