🔗Building this blog

Blogs were a staple of the internet once. Now you don't see them that often anymore. And when you do, they've usually all moved to platforms like medium or tumblr. Yet, in the world of computers and programming they somehow survived until now. Perhaps it’s because tutorials are much easier to follow when they’re not chopped into 240-character snippets. Anyway, building a simple blog is probably something anyone even a little bit into web frontend has done at least once. And this is my latest attempt at it.

🔗How it works

This is a pretty standard generated static site using zola. There's actually not much more to it. Just write some simple templates, a little bit of CSS, add some markdown and you're done. Pretty neat.

🔗Where I stole

If you take a look at https://kevinfiol.com/, you might notice some striking similarities. If you look at the github repository of that site, you will even see that it uses zola. How come? I found that site while learning some mithril.js and really liked it. After having just completed the latest retweaking of another personal blog I never used, I decided to look into it. While the layout looks very similar, I pretty much did that without copying anything directly from Kevin's site. What I did just copy-paste was a little bit of CSS and code for that super cool table of contents on the left (you won't find it if you're on mobile). So Kevin F., should you ever see this, thank you very much. There was no license in your repo, so if you want it removed, contact me. If you're not Kevin F., be sure to check out the original!

🔗And now?

Will I use this blog? Probably not. I don’t have much to share with the world. I used the old one only once when I wrote something about coding basics for my classmates and wanted to look cool by having a website. But should I ever need a blog now, I have at least two fully functioning blogs now.

By the way, if you're looking for something much simpler than zola/hugo/gatsby, check out ssg by Roman Zolotarev. It creates a static site from markdown too, but written in POSIX using tools every unix computer already has. It's pretty cool.