I'm almost certain no one reads my blog. This is not a disappointment to me. I feel like writing helps me organize my thoughts better and I become better at communicating. So many episodes of shows I watched as a child had a plot where a character read another character's private journal and explored concepts like trust and privacy.
I think a useful question is "If I had a private journal, would anyone want to read it?".
I'm old enough to remember the internet before myspace. The web used to be more than 5 websites. I miss when you could find someone's personal blog. These sites contained the personalities of the people who created them. They weren't always good or made well but you could feel their personality in the topics they chose, the way they laid the site out, the colors they chose. Modern social media allows anyone to share anything, but it's in a neat little box. There's no more stumbling upon unique and interesting sites. Having a blog is my own way of trying to have my own unique corner of the internet.
I'm glad someone finally asked. I write all of my blog posts as markdown files that live locally on my laptop.
I have a script written that takes the content of these files and writes them to my database.
When a request is sent to view a blog post the database returns the text content as I've written it. I then use a library to convert the markdown into html. The html is then rendered and styled with Tailwind's prose class.