skeleton online (@yrriban.net)

about making a website the thing about making a website is at some point you have to actually make things that go on the website. i feel like this is where i stumble on every attempted project, where setting up scaffolding and other stuff is more exciting than actually using any of it to do anything. but lots of people post-cohost have their own thing and i want to get in on the action if i can, even if it's well past the zeitgeist at this point. i could have maybe got up and running with some off the shelf software or pre-hosted thing faster, but i already have this setup i like on a server i fully control. i tried a couple static site generators for this, like hugo, but honestly their complexity seems to far outweigh their usefulness for my purposes. plus the results just look way too professional. i'm going to try and keep things as javascript-free as possible around here, although there'll be some inevitable embedded stuff. maybe there'll be some dynamic things as well to support comments or h-entries or webmentions or what have you. i haven't really thought that through yet. https://yrriban.net/meta/makingawebsite.html