I’ve made the hard decision to move off Drupal. After 10+ years, the old site served me well, but it was time for something new and simpler.
I was inspired by a post by Dave Kiss where he detailed setting up and migrating his new site only through chatting with an AI bot via Telegram. Since I’ve already been running the same AI bot, I was inspired by the simplicity of both the process and lack of maintenance.
Since I like to write everything in Markdown anyway, being able to quickly edit a file locally and then just git push really sold me. I’d already
considered trying to hook up my ClawdBot to my Drupal site, so it could make changes, do update, etc. However have a simple git flow just made
more sense. The bot built this site without me having to hook up anything.
In about 30 minutes, I had a chat session with my bot via Discord, and this new site was spun up and deployed to Cloudflare Pages. The only manual step I had to take was to migrate my DNS.
This blog is now:
- Markdown files in a Git repo
- Hugo for static site generation
- Cloudflare Pages for hosting
That’s it. No database, no CMS, no maintenance headaches.
More to come.