After reading Ana's blogpost "In defense of unpolished personal websites" I decided I should be a bit more vocal about my own attempts at starting my own website with blog.
I am however maybe taking it to the extreme. No CSS except from the half baked attempts at a homepage some 5 years ago, a goal to "commit every day" (which of course I kept up for not even a week), and an experience in web development close to nil.
Nonetheless here I am. With a website, with notes, and with an ambition to keep on building a solid website. You might maybe already have noticed that I can quickly get distracted by all the sidequests that come across my path. Some notable ones:
- Adding og-image generation to my pages.
- Adding a pageview counter (no tracking), and building some extra features on top of it.
- Connecting my website to the fediverse, using the kirby indieconnector plugin.
- Allowing commenting on my posts through mastodon or the form you see below.
- Working footnotes1
- Spending hours in Affinity Designer trying to work out good logos to use as favicon
and throughout the website.
But I've enjoyed every step of the way, talking to the amazing Kirby community and working on what I want, when I want. Sometimes this project being the only one that I turn to, even when I should have other priorities...