ok let’s try this again, from the top

This should be the point when I’m about to reveal that I just moved from one esoteric static-site generator, named some shit like Rooster, to another esotetic static-site generator named SpaceRocket, of which both are incredibly busted and take roughly ten quadrillion years to compile, and also of which you learn they’re two different platforms as a result of a falling-out between two developers in 2019 that has now become everyone else’s problem.

…I’m still on 11ty, though. All that changed is that, after having a new-old unnuked laptop,^[1] I took one look at my config after five months of not seeing it, and my first immediate thought was “what the fuck is literally any of this?”

I threw out a good majority of what I was doing previously, in favor of something that was basically juuuust small enough to where I can, hopefully, maybe, plausibly, not be a lost child looking at it in a year. If you look at my CSS now, a majority of it is dedicated to either webfonts, or the one syntax highlighting plugin that I kind of can’t drop without making a lot of my CSS posts look like shit. (No more useless side bar that doesn’t do anything other than vaguely let you know I know where a street in Vancouver is, too!)

A lot of links will be broken, but that’s because I previously tried a category system that extremely did not work to organize anything; the new system is just folders with timestamps, because I mentally map posts by when I made them anyways. I like to think I fixed them all by the time other people see this, but there’s a near-100% chance that is not the case.

It’s still the one blog system that compiles fast without making you destroy your own markdown files to make it work,^[2] I just mucked it up before. It’s less mucked up now, though!