A new home

Hello there, my valued and likely imaginary reader! It's been a while. This is just a short one to state the obvious and let you know that I moved my blogposts from ftbsc to this website of mine. It's better this way - the other website acts as an aggregator of our collective posts, which you can then read on our respective websites, where we can all be free from each other's questionable taste in web design.

Static generators

Liking the new website? I think it's pretty cool, if I may say so myself. For my own website, I ditched hugo in favour of zola. Those are what we call static website generators: you write some Markdown and it spits out this sexy HTML blog page. They are near indistinguishable (with zola ripping off taking inspiration from the older hugo), but zola is generally faster (and I find its theme composition syntax to be a lot clearer). Also, zola is written in Rust whereas Hugo is written in Go, which means that if I ever need a missing feature there's a tiny possibility of me sitting down to write it.

This theme is kind of custom. Web design not being my strong suit, I relied on the work of people better at it than me. I've been editing off of the excellent anemone theme, to add some custom features and especially to adapt some stuff from my favourite hugo theme: hello-friend-ng. It took the better part of two days, but I managed to get my website to a usable state. Mobile version still sucked, and I couldn't get code blocks to scroll instead of break (solved thanks to this article, by the way). Finishing the job took a few more days of tinkering and tweaking, but I'm pretty proud of the final result. Man, working with CSS and HTML was a horrid experience. I pity those poor bastards that do this for a living.

Over and out

That's it for this one. Maybe I don't always need to write kilometer-long blogposts, huh. Anyway, I hope I'll be writing more. It's not that I didn't want to, I just couldn't find stuff to post about! Not to say that I've been sitting on my ass - far from it. Since you last heard from me, I've become at least passable in Rust, and I've even worked with C++ (gasp) for the first time since the university course I took on the topic. I must say, I've been pleasantly surprised.

I digress. Have a good one, and hopefully you'll read some more stuff soon.