I've been blogging on the current version of this blog since the August of 2023 and it's been mostly fine. But I believe this website isn't good enough. And today I'm here to talk about that.
My current blog is based on a project called Rubidium which I made approximately 2 years ago. When I build that blog, I didn't knew how things were and just made what I knew best at that time.
And this site has born. At the beginning, creation of this site was only to prove others that I can build whatever I want only using my knowledge. I succeed of course but due to my limited knowledge at that time, this site has lacked so many things from the beginning.
Over time, I tried to implement some missing features, fix the mistakes and so on. But source code of this site were written so wrong that, right now it's became a spaghetti and when I open it, I just look into pure chaos and amateur code.
And now I believe the only thing that could fix this site will be completely rewriting it from scratch.
While building this site, I wanted a Cyberpunk style futuristic website and this was the best thing I was able to do at that time. But now I just want a blog with minimalist design that looks good on eyes.
But other than design, this site lacks lots of functionality on it's own. For example, this blog still lacks an CMS and uses the local markdown files for it's content. To publish something I have to SSH into my server and manually copy the markdown file onto this websites source and rebuild it.
Which makes publishing stuff outside my house almost impossible.
Also this blog still doesn't have simple functionality like post categories, comments, likes and dislikes or even filtering posts based on dates. Which I love when see on other blogs.
Some people call this simplicity but this just being lazy and this embraces me as a web developer. Starting tomorrow this changes.
The Carbon6 project
And meet my next open source project, the carbon6. It'll be a fully-featured blog thats written using NextJS.
It's name comes from the chemical description of paper and it's design is also inspired from a HUGO theme called PaperMod.
I'm starting a new project because Rubidium isn't really self-hostable by other people. With the Carbon6 project, I want to change that, I want anyone to be able to clone the source code and build their blogs based on Carbon6 without having to edit the source code or struggle around with undocumented code.
I've split building process simply into 4 steps. And those are:
- Design
- Building the base
- Building the CMS
- Adding extra features
I'm currently at the designing step, I'm getting a little help from a friend of mine for this step because he's much better at creating good website designs. If everything goes as planned, this step will be finished at June 30th, 2025.
Than building the base gonna be easy, this base will include the simplest functionality of website with it's design. Time this step will take completely depends on how much free time I'll have during the month of July.
Than I believe the hardest part will be the building CMS. In my entire carrier of web development for last 2 years, I never ever worked on a CMS system or any kind of text editor whatsoever and now building a Markdown editor from scratch just feels like I'm climbing the mountain Everest with no equipment.
But we're in the era of the Artificial Intelligence, I believe there is nothing I can't do with some little help from AI!
And than the small features will come, maybe some bugfixes and voila! It's done!
After some extra details such as a good documentation, the project will be finished and gonna be ready for anyone to use it.
So yeah, these were my future plans for this website and my new project. Hopefully if everything goes right approximately 3 months later, we'll meet on a completely reworked and a much better website.
But until that, thanks for checking out. See you all in the next one!
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22.06.2025