Announcing the new codebar blog

Ohhhh hello codebar blog, it’s been a little while. We’re so happy to be writing again 🥰 and with that the codebar blog has officially moved!

If you’ve been following our journey over the years, you might know that our blog, which includes community updates, and technical content, were previously hosted on Medium. While Medium served us well for a long time, we wanted a space that truly felt like ours - more accessible, fully open-source, and seamlessly integrated with the rest of codebar.

So, we built one!

🚀 Why We Moved to Hugo

We’ve migrated away from Medium to an internally hosted, static site built with Hugo.

By switching to Hugo and self-hosting, we get:

⚡ Lightning-Fast Speed: Hugo generates lightweight static pages that load almost instantly, no matter where you are reading from.

🔓 Open Content: No paywalls, no pop-ups asking you to sign up, and no clutter. Just pure, accessible content for you.

🛠️ Community-Driven: Because it’s built with markdown files and open-source tooling, updating and maintaining our blog is now aligned with how we teach and write code.

🎨 Complete Control: We can design, structure, and feature our writers exactly how we want.

📸 So what’s Next?

All of our past articles have been carefully migrated over, so that we didn’t lose any. Going forward, all new updates, student stories, chapter announcements, and technical content will live right here.

Take a look around, check out our new look, and stay tuned. We can’t wait to start creating more content on here for you. And with that in mind if you’d like to contribute, whether it’s a post about your coding journey, a technical post, a how-to guide or something else please do drop us an email 📧 [email protected].

And before we finish we want to say a huge thank you to Morgan Roderick who did ALL of the work building our blogs new home and migrating all our old content.