Structure comes before bilingual styling
The important part of this rebuild is not the language switch itself, but the way routes, content models, and CMS structure now agree with each other.
Journal
Journal entries and longer logs
This is where longer logs, write-ups, and reflections live. More complete than notes, more personal than a portfolio.
CMS structure and Git structure have to agree
If the front-end changes without the CMS, or the CMS changes without the readers, the content system becomes inconsistent again almost immediately.
Turning a sample template into a real publishing system
A template demonstrates possibilities; a system has to survive future edits. Those are different jobs, and they require different kinds of changes.