I used to actually blog, but I ended up neglecting my site after I got a full-time job since I wanted to spend my personal time doing other things. But, I do credit my website heavily for getting me where I am and I always highly recommend blogging and having an online portfolio to anyone trying to get into the tech industry.
Fun fact: A long time ago I had a blog post/rant about reCAPTCHA end up on the HN home page, and some time later I had a coworker ask me if I knew I was on Wikipedia. Turns out someone linked my blog post in the Wikipedia article for CAPTCHAs, but it's since been removed.
Anyways, I did literally just switch from Wordpress to Statamic (which is even self-hosted on my homelab!). WP is a pain to manage, and having a flat-file based CMS does provide me some flexibility. I setup (again, using my homelab and N8N!) an automatic Masotdon-to-Statamic cross-poster, which was much easier to integrate than if I had my old WP setup.