BAD POSTS DOT BOO

ok let’s try this again, from the top

one more time

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, Link to footnote 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 photo of howe and dunsmuir in downtown vancouver
i think the idea here was that it made me look urban and professional except nothing about this blog would indicate professionalism

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, Link to footnote 2 I just mucked it up before. It’s less mucked up now, though!


  1. The old T460 died for a bad keyboard, which turned out to be a bad keyboard ribbon cable, and by the time I found that out I realized you can get better barely-used Thinkpads in CURRENT_YEAR for about the price of those parts, so I just bought another one?

    I feel like doing that missed the whole point of why I was trying not to replace laptops in the first place, but that T460 lasted five years so I can’t complain. Return to article via footnote 1

  2. My favorite thing is looking at some shiny new markdown-to-static-site generator, seeing it be advertised as “blazing fast”, and then it still takes like three times as long as 11ty. One day, it’ll be possible… Return to article via footnote 2


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