Blog Creation

First post, please ignore

I've been working on the format for this blog for a little bit. I figured it'd make a good first post!

I'm aiming for a couple things with this:

1. Very simple interface
2. Statically hosted with no javascript
3. Low overhead for writing shortish blogs
4. It's something to do

Layout

The general idea is that given a set of markdown files (one for each post), a python script (AI generated make_page.py) scrapes those files and generates a set of html pages.

I've elected to keep each blog post in an arbitrary folder like 001_name. The website is generated by scraping each of these folders, and converting the markdown to html using the aforementioned script. The index page is generated by collecting the title from the markdown page and some metadata at the top of the file.

I suspect it will be hard to keep the layout working on different devices and browsers (including light/dark mode). I'll only be testing on Safari on my Mac.

Hosting

The deployable pages are packaged into the dist/ folder, and pushed to the main branch on the repo. Github pages knows to watch this branch and will kick off an action to generate and host the data from there. I managed to set up a custom domain through Namecheap and hookup the cname records so it points to the hosted pages. Although, to be honest, I don't recall exactly how.