Welcome to the blog! (+ technical explanation)

Hello, and welcome to the first post of my new website. This has been about a year in the making, and I’m really happy with how it’s turned out. In the future, I’ll be posting all my programming, 3d-printing and othe r miscellaneous techie projects here. More pages are also due to be added in the future, as well as rss and newsletter capabilities.

How does the website work?

Well - it’s complicated. I started this project, trying to build a custom, plain HTML + CSS website, with a few python scripts to manage the blogging system - it went about as well as you’d expect, but I learned some valuable web development skills that are used in this final versions of the website. So, finally, I settled on using Jekyll for the backend. For hosting, I used GitHub pages, but using actions, instead of the default configuration. This was to allow me to use the jekyll-paginate-v2 and jekyll-sitemap plugins. My domain registrar is NameCheap, as they had the cheapest rate for this url, and I used CloudFlare free tier for DNS, caching and CDN purposes. Finally, the the aestetics are made using the fantastic 98.css and Alex Meub’s Windows 98 Icon collection.

So, expect more posts like this in the future (although, they’ll probably be longer next time) and more features to come.