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I echo what aaron_baugher said: absolutely. But I have a different set of caveats.

Reproducing the functionality of any straightforward blog platform is semi-trivial for an advanced hacker with web experience. Making it solid, deployable, generic, extensible, robust, secure, self-administrating, backup-data-safe, well-tested, et cetera, et cetera, is a bear and has so many different cogs and avenues that even that advanced hacker could easily sink a year into it and it would not cover the hundreds of plugins available to something like WordPress.

I am entirely in favor of doing this kind of thing. Just realize what you’re doing. A newly minted hacker would sink that year just getting basic account, posts, comments, and deployment and it would be throwaway code. I oughta know. I’ve done it four times. The learning experience has been invaluable however and a huge degree of my employability came from taking these experiments seriously.

If you start this, gravitating toward the dispatch/routing frameworks will be harder than just starting to write code *initially* but a hundred times easier after you start to get the feel of it. If you get this set of abbreviations down (not code as much as the specifications)—HTTP, CGI, HTML, CSS, JS, SQL, XSS, CSRF—then everything that follows will be drastically less mysterious.


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