Embracing markdown by creating an SSG
04/07/2025
a screenshot of the markdown used to generate this page

I have a problem when I write. I don't want to.

Everything that can distract me will distract me away from writting. Thats why most of the things I do are in the magical world of ANALOGUE ie a notepad. I burn one like every 2 weeks with research and ideas or just general ramblings but the thing is that some of those stuff are for this page and to be able to put them here I need to hardcode the html file and I really really really really hate that process.

I hate it so much that I have 7 write ups completed for like 3 months now and I am unable to upload them.

It's not just the putting tags on everything that's a problem, it's checking that every link in every page works correctly, that the responsiveness is responsive, etc. It's mostly busy work that I wanted automated because 60% of my day job is already coding (the other 40% is telling the manager we don't need LLMs) and when the burnout comes I don't even want to look at a computer much less a code editor.

I guess the downside of all of this it's that now all posts are standarized instead of visually customly made (I can't add css classes on the mardown) and I'm ok with that, I'm more of a letter person than a visual person anyway and I know that automating everything to look the same goes against the WEB 1.0 ethos that usually is talked about when dealing with neocities if anyone cares about that but this SSG is mine and I'm most likely not sharing the code cuz it's tailor made for me and what I like in web pages (also the code it's like 20 lines, from which 15 where copied from a tutorial).

Also blog post are now singular pages, and that means some of them are out of the page for the moment cuz i can't be ask to upload all of them before I figure out paginating or archiving.

I also wrote a lil breakdown of how I handle tags and dates in post on Goofy media, an open source cohost alternative rocc is making I will be using cuz microblogging isn't really my thing