Why did I make a bear blog?

I'm a professional software engineer. I'm really good at my job. It would've been easy -- trivial -- to take Hugo, some off-the-shelf theme, write some markdown, build it and deploy to Cloudflare. Wouldn't cost me a dime. Are you having buyer's remorse? You'd think that would've been the obvious thing to do with my advocating so hard for the indie web and ownership of their tech. "Write some HTML…