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A full-stack developer journal built from scratch - MDX publishing, GitHub-gated comments, a custom admin CMS and a neo-brutalist design system, running entirely on free tiers.

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Introducing BuildLog: The Developer Journal I Couldn't Stop Polishing

BuildLog is a full-stack developer journal I built from scratch - MDX articles, a real admin CMS, GitHub-gated comments and a neo-brutalist design system. Here is the complete tour: what it does, how it works under the hood, and why each choice was made.

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