🤖 The “Squad” Just Revived My Dinosaur-Aged Blog 🦕
They say the cobbler’s children have no shoes, and for years, my personal site (mightybs.com) was the digital equivalent. It was stuck in the legacy Blogger era, while I was busy building the future of AI at Microsoft.
Today, that changed, all in less than an hour.
I finally migrated to a modern, high-performance stack, and I didn’t do it alone. I leveraged Squad (the repository-native AI orchestration tool by Brady Gaster) to help me refactor, migrate, and modernize a site I hadn’t touched in years.
The New “Mighty” Architecture#
⬛ Static Site Generation: Switched to Hugo with the Blowfish theme. It’s blazing fast, uses Markdown for content, and gives my portfolio that “enterprise-grade” look and feel.
☁️ The Hosting: Azure Static Web Apps (SWA). Global distribution at the edge, free SSL, and seamless integration with my GitHub workflow. It’s the gold standard for personal branding.
🔄 CI/CD: Every git push triggers GitHub Actions, which builds and deploys the site in seconds.
📝 The CMS Experience: I’m using decap-proxy, a brilliant tool by Wes Johnson, to enable a GitHub-only login for Decap CMS. It’s a game-changer for managing content on a static site without needing a heavy backend. You can check it out here: github.com/sterlingwes/decap-proxy
The highlight? Using Squad.
Instead of manually fighting with migration scripts, I used a specialized team of AI agents to help orchestrate the move. It’s amazing to see how the Microsoft Agent Framework (MAF) 1.0 is already making “intent-driven development” a reality for my own side projects.
Huge thanks to Brady Gaster for the incredible work on Squad…it honestly made a task I’ve been dreading for years feel like a weekend hobby again. And a big shoutout to Wes Johnson for the proxy solution that tied the whole authentication piece together.
If you’re still hosting your blog on a legacy platform, this is your sign: go static, go Azure, and get yourself a Squad.