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The first post

Hi! I just got the blog page working, so it looks like I need to create a blog post. Maybe I should introduce myself. My name is Johannes Thorén and I’m a hobby developer currently working as a network engineer at a telecom company in Sweden. My hobbies are a mix of food, gaming, tech, and photography — and I’ll probably write about all of them here.

So, this won’t be strictly a tech or dev-focused blog, but of course I’ll be talking about that too.

The First Problem to Rant About

When developing this blog, I used Next.js — just like on the rest of the site. I also statically export the site so I can host it on Cloudflare Pages. That means I can't use dynamic server-side routes — everything needs to be pre-rendered at build time.

But as you can see, this blog does use dynamic-looking routes for individual posts. To make that work with static export, I need to pre-generate all the post paths using getStaticPaths.

For some reason, though, Next.js didn’t handle spaces in URLs the way I expected. I thought /blog/First Post would automatically be encoded to /blog/First%20Post, but that wasn't the case. That small issue ended up taking me five hours to debug — with help from both friends and ChatGPT.

And after all that, I decided to throw that work out and just replace spaces with hyphens in the URLs 🙂.

So thank you, friend and ChatGPT ❤️

Thats my small introduction and rant about making a blog. This is a short post but fear not there will be more and longer posts in the future.

Bye for now!