In Inception fashion this very website is indeed a project. My wife recently discovered the concept of “Indie Web”, which got us talking about how we might start poking out of our cave and back onto the web.
I’m gonna do it my way. - MAX, Bomberman Generations
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Right away I knew I wanted to do a static website. I had made a Wordpress back in the day, and am currently running a Wix site for WLI, but damn it I just want somewhere to post some static content, not LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE AI enhanced tiktok nonsense hellscape we live in now.
Right. Static. Does that just mean HTML? Like, you know, notepad?
As it turns out, kinda, yeah! The new (~15 years ago lol) hot shit is Static site generators. They are all basically a template system to automatically generate static HTML pages from Markdown text. Fantastic. I went with Hugo. Why? It was the first one I found.
I then followed this tutorial. Why? It was the first one I found.
Oh, what’s this? Ah yes, we are truly in the modern age. I need a framework for CSS, because things like reactive grid based blah blah blah stuff looks fucking ROUGH to do manually. Don’t worry about it, just use Bulma, you good now. Is this a DBZ ref?
OK OK, I dunno if I’ll keep using Bulma, but honestly? I feel like I’ve missed out on a lot of how modern web development works, so this has been really great to just dip my toe into the water and learn at my own pace.
I have yet to venture into Hugo shortcode because that looks pretty daunting and instead have been occasionally pushing raw HTML into my markdown files, which is probably bad practice. Oh well.
Already ran into a fun feature of Hugo where the automatic summary breaks if there is a link within the content. I saw a fix to “plainify” the text, but why is that not part of the auto system? Probably some edge case stuff. Coding is hard.