## 🎉 Past 2 weeks：
- Rewrite this website with Next.js (previously using vanilla create-react-app)
- Changed my hosting from AWS Amplify to Vercel (the company behind Next.js)
- Changed my backend from AWS Amplify to Firebase
- Implement i18n (hence this first post in English 😍)

## 🗽 So good to be free

You might be wondering, with all those high-quality services like Instagram, Medium, Squarespace, why would I still decide to build my website from scratch in 2021? 😂

I'd say it's all about freedom. 

With Instagram, I found myself getting influenced by how Instagram will optimize for its viewer. I felt less motivated to take pictures in landscape mode cause I knew it wouldn't look good for my follower. I also felt demotivated to write a good caption since most people don't ready those anyway.

I want a new place that I can experiment with different formats of showcasing my photos and telling my story. And I don't want to get influenced again by yet another service that imposes arbitrary limitations. 

I looked into Squarespace but ultimately decided I should write my own from scratch so that I don't need to spend time hacking around their system to get whatever feature I may want in the future. Like I'd imagine, the English-Chinese mode I implemented in a few hours could be hard to set up in Squarespace.  

So far, I think the code and website are looking pretty good. 😁


## 🍂 Weekends

So this weekend, I went to Mt Rainier for the fog again. Although unfortunately, this time, the mountain never reveals itself. It looks like my success rate of getting that "moment of Mt Rainier revealed from the fog" is now down to 25% 😂

Last weekend I went to this popular fall color hike: Mt McCausland Trail. The kind of fall color it has are those small bushes turned red and yellow. Not sure how to best photograph it yet. But my friend took their dogs with us, so I ended up taking tons of dog pics. 😂

![IG: @momochan_saki](https://ik.imagekit.io/1alhfoypqsx/R5__8161-1_copy.jpg)

## 🎉 這兩週：
- 把網站用 Next.js 重寫了 (之前是單純的 create-react-app)
- Hosting 從 AWS Amplify 換到 Vercel (Next.js 背後的公司)
- 後端從 AWS Amplify 換到 Firebase
- 中英雙語切換
- 後台雙語編輯器

## 🗽 自由的感覺真好

其實我對從頭寫這個個人網站超！級！興！奮！

覺得已經開始有了很不錯的樣子了，包括後台的文章編輯體驗也是越來越讚，畢竟每次一覺得哪裡怪怪的不好用，很快就會想辦法解決掉 😆

雖然要追上現成的平台的品質還有一段路要走，但覺得已經可以看得到別人的車尾燈了，且現在一邊加功能一邊不斷的重構程式碼，可以掌握程式碼品質跟功能真的是超爽的。不用再被平台綁架，或是花大量時間去研究怎麼在別人的架構底下 Hack 出一個簡單的功能。

前端工程師真的是個很實用的技能啊 😆

## 🍂 週末

這個週末又跑去了 Mt Rainier 追霧，不過可惜直到日出後霧都沒散開，看來目前的成功率只剩下 25% 了。

上個週末則是爬了一個很夯的秋景步道: Mt McCausland Trail，他的秋景屬於小樹叢會變豔紅或豔黃色，還不太知道要怎麼拍，倒是拍了一堆朋友的狗的照片 😂

![IG: @momochan_saki](https://ik.imagekit.io/1alhfoypqsx/R5__8161-1_copy.jpg)

3. 從頭寫網站

🎉 這兩週：

🗽 自由的感覺真好

🍂 週末