dotjesper.com | Building my blog

The Building My Blog series, chronicles my journey of creating and developing my personal blog. It covers the challenges, successes, and lessons learned along the way, providing insights into the world of blogging, web development, and content creation. Each post offers a behind-the-scenes look at the tools, techniques, and strategies I employed to build a successful online presence.

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A newbie's guide to the galaxy - part 4

July 6, 2026 by Jesper Nielsen • 29 minutes to read

What happens when ambitions are higher than your current skill set, but you keep building anyway?

This is not a guide, it is merely a continuation of my blog-ramblings, a collection of things I found useful while building this website from the ground up. If you have been following this Building my blog series, you know the pattern by now: I start with something I want to build and run headfirst into the limits of what I know - struggle - learn - and come out the other side with something I am genuinely proud of.

A newbies guide to the galaxy - part 3.5

May 7, 2025 by Jesper Nielsen • 20 minutes to read

What happens when your ambition consistently outgrows your competence - and you keep going anyway?

This is not a guide, it is merely a continuation of my blog-ramblings, a collection of things I found useful while building this website from the ground up. If you have been following the first and second installments of this series, you know the pattern by now: I start with grand ambitions, run headfirst into the limits of what I know, struggle, learn, and come out the other side with something I am genuinely proud of.

A newbies guide to the galaxy - part 2

January 28, 2023 by Jesper Nielsen • 18 minutes to read

This is not a guide, it is merely a collection of blog-ramblings, a collection of things I found to be useful while building this website from the ground up, a to-do list, and a list of things I want to accomplish in my quest building this blog and over time become a blogger.

I have not been posting many posts since I initially created the first version of this blog. I have kept this blog unannounced, and it has been living a kind of secret life. In many ways, this blog is defining who I am and what I do daily, I love the technical part of all this. I have always been more of a techie than a writer and found I was spending a lot of time building, tuning, and customizing various sites, and the whole thing kind of stranded halfway through, becoming too complicated as ambitions was outrunning skills - it was time for a change.

A newbies guide to the galaxy - part 1

November 19, 2020 by Jesper Nielsen • 5 minutes to read

This is not a guide, it is merely a collection of my blog-ramblings, a collection of things I found to be useful while building this website from the ground up, a collection of to-do’s and a list of things I want to accomplish in my quest building this blog and over time become a blogger.

I have always been a serious person, with a well proven procrastination issue and often too preoccupied with other things and I had a rather halfhearted go to get a blog going. I have been talking about ‘my blog’ for years, I had several domain names, several ideas and pretty much all of them never got airborne. Thinking about it, I have always been more of a techie than a writer and found I was spending a lot of time building, tuning and customizing various sites, and the whole thing kind of stranded halfway through, becoming too complicated as ambitions was outrunning skills.