Hello World / Reinventing the Wheel
Welcome to my new blog! This is the obligatory first post. I expect this blog will be fairly boring, for a bit. But it's mostly for my own accountability and to give myself a place to talk into the void, that isn't social media :-)
What is this?
A blog written in StaticBlogger(I'm not very creative), a local blogging tool that generates a fully static website from HTML posts with YAML front matter. Each post can have its own CSS, use templates, and even include PHP code that runs on the server. It's very remniscent of Dreamweaver from back in the day, but less garbage haha
Features
- Fully customizable HTML posts
- Template system with per-template CSS
- Per-post custom CSS
- RSS feed generation
- Standalone search API
- Extension system for adding features
Why?
Isn't that what being a developer is all about. Not just consuming tools, but creating purpose-built solutions. In this instance I was the client. I wanted a way to blog, but I didn't want any server constraints or unnecessary dependencies that would come baked into something like wordpress.
So, I build a custom blogging platform, from a Laravel base because Laravel is fantastic for this type of thing. And because I built it, I can extend it to do whatever I need it to. Plus.... I've been in a rut lately and I really just needed to ship something. :-)
I may post more about the software/build process in another post. It was a fairly straight forward build, but also kinda antithetical to the normal standard.
That's all for now, I guess.