The Custom Email I forgot to write about a major change with my email. Initially I found out about a feature in Cloudflare called Email Routing. It forwarded emails received from a custom email inbox to my Gmail address, so every time someone would send an email to personal@anirudhsevugan.me, I would receive the email in my regular inbox (with a bit of extra delay since there’s one extra step in receiving the mail).

Chat App If you don’t know, something called Cloudflare Workers exists. For those non-techies out there, it just does really cool stuff that can power things like chat apps. For those of you techies, it is a serverless tool filled with icing on top with its generous free plan, Durable Objects and SQL, framework support, and more. Durable Chat I took a Cloudflare Worker template and changed it up a bit to create the Durable Chat app!

Back before this blog existed, I had created a blog with Payload CMS via a Vercel template, before I moved my website to the new host and everything. But it was difficult to manage. The UI felt finicky to use and editing it wasn’t much better. That’s why I migrated to Hugo, because it is much simpler to manage, and a regular Next.js blog is too to be honest!