Today, IW Journal officially went live on Netlify — a small but meaningful step from a local experiment to a living system on the internet.
The blog is built with Hugo, connected to Decap CMS for content management, and automatically builds and deploys whenever I push changes to GitHub.
Beyond hosting, this project was an exercise in understanding the full lifecycle of a static site — from build generators and DNS setup in Cloudflare to enabling Netlify Identity and Git Gateway.
Each component feels like a node in a small, cooperative ecosystem.
There’s a quiet satisfaction in seeing an empty URL evolve into something alive — something that responds, updates, and keeps running because I made it that way.
It’s not about the visuals; it’s about the system heartbeat that finally syncs with mine.
Every deployment tells a story about systems finding equilibrium.
Written from IW Lab — where systems learn to stay alive.