2023-05-13: Minimalism as applied to blogging

As should be obvious from glancing at the contents of my website, I don't like javascript. This website is, frankly, an active protest against 'Web 2.0' and its ideals of never letting your browser breathe easy. I took a look at the various wonders of modern blogging. Things like Jekyll look quite nice, theoretically fulfilling my desires for cutesy static blogging with lots of customisation ability. But I wanted something that I could completely understand, and if not that, was somewhat minimal. Jekyll already wanted to be installed through the ruby package manager, and that doesn't bode well for minimalism. So I decided that I wanted something that ran through CGI - I was already using the amazing cgit and I wanted more. After some quick searches nothing came up, which resulted in me whacking out the two shell scripts which run the setup you currently see. On your end, it's a tree of HTML files - on my end, it's a tree of HTML or markdown files, and two crude shell scripts. I'll get myself together and publish those scripts soon, in case anybody wants to, for some reason, have a website as ugly as mine.