Author here.
I previously used Next.js for my blog and Notion for my collection of linked books/resources/notes, but I wasn't happy with the compilation time of Next.js for a simple blog and the slowness of Notion.
So I built my own solution for both from scratch.
I use Python for the logic (zero dependencies) and SQLite for the data.
If you open, for example, an author's page, you'll find hyperlinks to all their resources in the first part of the document, and vice versa for the resources. Example: https://danielfalbo.com/resources/fabric-of-reality
The blog will live in the "notes" table, which behaves similarly at https://danielfalbo.com/notes (actually, I'm still thinking whether to split the notes and the blog tables or keep them together, but infrastructure-wise it doesn't change anything).
I use Python for the logic (zero dependencies) and SQLite for the data.
I still have to migrate the data, but the core is already online at https://danielfalbo.com
For instance, I have an SQLite table for resources and one for authors, linked together.
The indices for each are automatically generated at https://danielfalbo.com/resources and https://danielfalbo.com/authors
If you open, for example, an author's page, you'll find hyperlinks to all their resources in the first part of the document, and vice versa for the resources. Example: https://danielfalbo.com/resources/fabric-of-reality
The blog will live in the "notes" table, which behaves similarly at https://danielfalbo.com/notes (actually, I'm still thinking whether to split the notes and the blog tables or keep them together, but infrastructure-wise it doesn't change anything).
A fun feature is the dynamic calculation of my age at the moment of writing of any blog post, for example, seen at https://danielfalbo.com/notes/essentials
There is also a lightweight livee preview feature for nice offline html content editing.
I still have to finish migrating everything and might realize there are gaps along the way, but the goal is relevant-features parity with https://old.danielfalbo.com/weblog and https://danielfalbo.notion.site/3cce7ff647e94470ba1342211337...