After thinking it over for a long time, I finally decided to start this blog.
Part of my hesitation came from the usual problem with personal sites: it takes time not only to build them, but also to decide what belongs in them and how to keep them organized. Seeing how active the ASP.NET community was around blogging made the idea feel more approachable. It started to seem less like building a full website from scratch and more like keeping a technical diary in public.
I ended up choosing BlogEngine.NET because it gave me a practical way to get started without worrying too much about development time or cost. It was built with C#/.NET, it felt organized, and it offered a solid balance between usability and flexibility.
If you were evaluating it at the time, these were useful references:
I was still very much learning the platform, but it already felt like the right foundation for what I wanted this blog to become.