Building This Site
How I set up this personal site with Next.js 15 and Cloudflare Pages.
I wanted a personal site that was fast, cheap to run, and easy to update. Here's what I landed on.
Tech choices
Next.js 15 with the App Router. I work with React at work, so this was a natural fit. Static export means the whole site is just HTML/CSS/JS — no Node.js server to maintain.
Tailwind CSS v4 for styling. The new CSS-first approach is much cleaner than configuring a JS file.
Cloudflare Pages for hosting. Free tier is generous, deploys straight from GitHub, and since my domain is already on Cloudflare the DNS setup was painless.
Markdown files for blog posts. No CMS, no database. Just files in a content/posts/ directory that get rendered at build time.
Deployment
Push to GitHub → Cloudflare Pages picks it up automatically → builds and deploys. The whole pipeline takes about 30 seconds.
Total ongoing cost: $0 (just the domain registration).