I'm Back!
It’s been a while… But I’m back! New static site generator, newfound passion for working on the site!
This article is talking about an older design of the site, not the current one. That being said, the templating changes introduced in this article are still in place today. The site got a visual overhaul later to make it what it is today.
What happened?
After I initially got the site running with Jekyll ~2 years ago I was really happy with it. But I quickly realized that Jekyll was the wrong templating engine choice.
It was also my first attempt at a statically generated site. It had a lot of issues and I quickly realized it would need a rewrite.
And as with most things, I’ve been putting that rewrite off forever.
I also didn’t really have much to say, the landing page was filled with Lorem ipsum placeholders and I didn’t want to write any blog posts on a site that was totally unfinished.
Long story short, the project died.
I don’t know if I have much more to say now compared to when I first got the site running, but for what it’s worth, the site is back!
I got rid of the landing page placeholders, made it much cleaner and more my style. I rewrote the whole thing with Hugo, I have automatic site builds when changes happen upstream and like the old site, the whole thing is open-source.
There are still pretty major issues with how I (or rather someone over at W3C – it’s heavily based on their W3CSS templates; this one and this one) made the site. But I’m no web developer. It’s good enough for now.
Expect more content very soon.