Let’s try this again. This time with more ways to publish and with even less between me and the code.

Over the years I’ve spent a lot of time building websites. At first with static html that arrived at our home on an AOL CD-ROM. We didn’t even have an internet connection back then, but there was an index.html file on that CD which I dissected and built my first homepage upon.

I grew up and started putting more and more PHP into my HTML until I arrived at WordPress. That CMS accompanied me through a few years of self employment building sites for other people and way better, introduced me to the world of open source contribution. But WordPress got too bloated over the years.

For this site I wanted something simpler. I played around with 11ty for a while, but I don’t want to rely on package managers and build processes that can break at any time. It simply wasn’t simple enough.

This is how I arrived at this point: I’m writing everything myself in HTML and CSS (and Gemtext for Gemini ). No frameworks, no AI, no CMS. Except of course on the Fediverse, where I use a PieFed community on my selfhosted instance to host this blog. I’m finally having fun building again, not just configuring tools and setting up systems.

Why? Because I love it, I like to write clean code myself and I understand everything that’s happening.