I started the Mighty MYndset blog in June 2023, and after three years, I've moved it to a new home. I was originally using a blogging platform called Ghost. But time passed, and as everyone knows, the age of AI has arrived โ these days I'm focused on experimenting with what AI can actually do. One thought that naturally came to mind was: "Shouldn't I at least be able to build my own blog with Claude and manage it end-to-end?" And so, on May 9th, I broke ground ๐ช and built it out whenever I had a spare moment โ and now I can officially say the blog migration is complete.
There's a saying that, with the advancement of AI, building software yourself has become cheaper than buying it. Going through this blog migration, I truly felt that to be true. Ghost is a paid platform that costs $108 per year. When I started the blog in 2023, I deliberately chose a paid platform to give myself a reason to keep writing. For the first two years, that worked. But starting in 2025, the effect wore off โ I was writing less frequently, the habit of not writing became inertia, and the $108 annual fee started to feel like a waste. It was around that time that I thought building a blog myself with Claude would teach me a lot, and having actually done it, I feel my affection for the blog coming back to life.
This is now my blog โ built from the codebase up, by me and AI, without relying on any other platform. Going forward, whenever I come across interesting elements to try on the site, I'd like to take on occasional large-scale redesigns. I'll do my best to make sure those of you who follow this blog regularly can enjoy discovering those changes as they happen.
You'll be able to see the changes for yourself as you explore the new Mighty MYndset blog, but I'd like to give you a quick overview of what's different in this post.
- I purchased the domain mnyng.com. Deciding on a domain name took longer than I expected. I'm still not entirely sure it's the right name, but it's made up of the consonants from my name, so it holds personal meaning.
- I made it feel more like a proper website. I added dynamic and frontend elements to improve the UI.
- Posts can now be read in English as well as Korean. One thing I insist on in maintaining this blog is that I write everything myself. AI is used as an auxiliary tool, but not for writing. All Korean posts are written by me. English versions, however, are AI-translated โ so every post on the new blog is available in English as well.
- I built a CMS admin for managing content. This isn't something readers will see directly, but since I was building the blog from scratch, I wanted to create a website that was independent of existing platforms from start to finish. So I also built an admin page for publishing and editing posts, viewing a dashboard, and adjusting blog settings.
What I thought would be done in a week turned out to have far more to it than I expected. The idea that AI lets you "click and produce software" is half right and half wrong. A click can get you from 0 to 10. But getting from 10 to 90 โ and from 99 to 100 โ still takes a lot of effort. I also came to feel that using AI well requires thinking of yourself as the person ultimately in charge, keeping the full picture in mind while directing the work.
Honestly, I'm still worried about the quality of the codebase and potential security gaps underlying this blog. Because these are areas I don't know well, I'm not sure what specific things to instruct AI on โ which leaves me with a vague sense of unease. How to work better with AI in areas you don't understand yourself is a topic worth exploring further. I'll look to address those gaps in a future overhaul.
Having built this blog from scratch, I definitely feel a deeper attachment to it. And I've gained more confidence in creating something genuinely complete with AI. I think this experience has also helped me calibrate my sense of what AI can and can't do โ narrowing that gap between over- and underestimating it.
With this blog migration as a turning point, I'll try to write more in the months ahead. To everyone reading this right now โ thank you, sincerely. I look forward to seeing you more often at this new home.