{
  "id": 6234998,
  "title": "I Didn’t Have a Developer Website, So I Built One.",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/08/i-didnt-have-a-developer-website-so-i-built-one",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-08T04:50:51.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/puneetkumar2010/i-didnt-have-a-developer-website-so-i-built-one-284k"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "I decided to create my own personal developer portfolio and blog called Devlogr. I had been publishing most of my articles on DEV.to, but I wanted to have a place of my own for all my projects, articles, and learnings. The name Devlogr combines \"Dev\" and \"Log,\" representing a log of my developer journey. The site features sections for articles about my builds, problems, experiments, and lessons learned, as well as a section for my projects with GitHub integration. I also prioritized SEO, making sure the site has dynamic page metadata, canonical URLs, sitemaps, and other SEO-friendly elements. Although Devlogr is not yet finished, I plan to continue improving it as I use it. I invite others who are building their own corners of the internet to share their experiences.",
  "summary": "For a long time, I published most of my articles on DEV.to. Not because I had some big strategy behind it. I simply didn't have a website of my own. DEV.to was convenient. I could write something, publish it, and put it in front of other developers. But eventually I started thinking: What if I had my own place for all of this? My projects. My articles. Things I've built. Things I've broken.…",
  "key_points": [
    "Created personal developer portfolio called Devlogr",
    "Combines \"Dev\" and \"Log\" for developer journey log",
    "Prioritizes SEO with dynamic metadata and sitemaps"
  ],
  "editors_take": "Building a personal developer website shifts control over one's online presence and intellectual property, allowing for greater customization and ownership of one's projects, articles, and learnings.",
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}