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This site is old and has moved around a lot. Tumblr first, then WordPress, then Pelican, back to WordPress, and now a Python script I wrote myself. That is more migrations than any personal blog needs. I would like this to be the last one.

A few notes on how it works.

• Static site generator. One Python file, standard library only, no dependencies to install or upgrade. Posts and pages are HTML with TOML frontmatter, and the entire template language is {{{ variable }}} substitution.
• Writing. I write posts in HTML, which I think is the right way to author a web page. Markdown gives out as soon as I want anything it does not already have a symbol for. I spend the day in a code editor anyway, so tags cost me nothing. The stylesheet targets bare elements, so most posts never need a class attribute.
• Styles. Pico CSS as the base, with a small handwritten stylesheet on top. No build step. System fonts, no web fonts.
• Syntax highlighting. highlight.js, self-hosted.
• Media. I download the videos I link to, like the talks on Watchroll, and serve them from here instead of embedding a player from someone else. No cross-site tracking, and they still play after the original disappears. Which happens.
• Analytics. Plausible. No cookies, no personal data.
• Output. Static HTML, clean URLs, and an RSS feed.
• Hosting. GitHub Pages, because it is free and I never have to think about it. It is a folder of files, so moving it elsewhere is a copy. I will probably do that eventually, for no good reason.