A blog is here!

Alright, so I've gone and done it. I've added a shoddy blog system to my Neocities page. Now you may ask, "why not just say something on Bluesky/Twitter/Tumblr? Those work great already!" And while I'm inclined to agree to a certain degree, I'm trying to move to stop being so reliant on other people's stuff. Plus, microblogging just ain't cutting it for what I want to say most of the time. So I set this up, clumsily shoved into my existing static site generator setup.

If you weren't aware already, I use a static site generator for this site. While that certainly does come with complications of adding things, it mostly makes my life easier. I only have to change one single nav.html file and it will be updated everywhere. Now when it came to adding this blog, the first option I considered was going and getting another existing static site generator specifically made for blogging.

This would actually bring the amount of SSGs I'm using to three, as if you weren't aware the wiki on this website actually uses a completely different static site generator than the one that powers the rest of the site. I was actually talked out of this by my friend, so what I did instead was implement that on my own. See, I was already using a build script to build my website. So, adding code to add more HTML files before actually generating the site wasn't too much of a hassle.

That does not mean it isn't jank, because it totally is. Honestly if I was allowed I would just host my own dynamic website made with Flask or something and just host a proper blog system on that. But alas, I'm currently at the mercy of other people for the permission to do that (cough cough parents).

Still though, I'm hoping this whole system will let me more accurately compose myself and just let me write/vent about whatever whenever. I don't have much else to say on topic of a blog right now, so I'll cya later!