2024-09-17 - Creating this site
Setting up this site was decently fun. I am not well versed in html or css at all really so helping me learn it was chatgpt. I don't particularly like AI but it was a good use case because sifting through html/css documentation would have taken a lot longer. I don't exactly know the typical workflow for this type of thing, but for me personally I have the site set up as a debian vps hosted on Linode, a favorite VPS provider of mine due to their prices and smaller VPS models (unlike digital ocean, they have nothing small). I use codium, the open source vscode alternative, and just ssh into it and manually edit the files. I set up SSI so the html files are pretty easy to edit just using an #include tag. Informed readers may be able to scrape the location of the template pages. I also had to set up nginx, but I've done it a few times so it wasn't that big of a pain. Few tutorials and I am set. It's still annoying to do, but at least Apache is worse. As for general theming, well this is pure html so there's no php for anything fancy. I "borrowed" some inspiration from the blog of someone I'm aware of, ejv2. You can view his blog here, it's a lot better set up than mine. I've never been someone who was in tune with aesthetics, for some reason that aspect of my creativity is fairly weak. So, simplistic it is! It's a good thing I like pages like this. Raw HTML just reminds me of the old net and I prefer it more. It's also less intensive on the browser and loads way faster. It all works out.