1. Finding my blogging software
Early yesterday morning, I got some of that juicy early-morning motivation and decided to actually do some research on how to make a blog. I’m impartial to Obsidian, I use it to take all of my notes currently. According to the internet, I would have to take markdown and turn it into HTML. That sounded too complicated to make on my own—I already made my own programming language, and it was hell—so my friends at Reddit said I either needed to pay almost $10 per month, or look for a static site generator. I decided to go for the latter because I’m poor.
After some more dead ends I found quartz and it was good, actually. More importantly, I could change the colors (most default dark themes are too dark for me, I don’t know what to say). After cloning their git repo, and shamelessly copying Adwaita’s color palette I was good to continue to…
2. CI
I was expecting this to be a pain but it wasn’t actually. This might be the best CI experience I’ve ever had, and that’s saying a lot, ‘cause I’ve had to make so many workflows over the years, and setting up any one of them were absolute hell. Turns out, quartz provides a copy-pastable Github Actions Workflow File which worked, actually
3. Now I have a blog
I don’t really know what to do with this. I’m probably not going to edit posts I make unless there are typos or something. I think it might be cool to keep an archive of the stuff I do with my life.