Colophon
The tech that makes this all possible
What follows are some of the things that make up this website.
Frontend
I usually reach for Eleventy for my site generator, but gave Astro a shot with this site. Likewise, I tend to hand roll my style sheets or use Bootstrap, but went with Tailwind CSS here. I am pleased with both – particularly Tailwind, which is expressive and helped me from recreating the same selectors yet again in another project.
Hosting/DNS
Netlify is my static website host of choice. You get so much value for so little money. Deploys are a cinch. Hooking up external APIs are, too. And you can schedule functions now, too – just like cron jobs of old!
Cloudflare provides DNS services, is a breeze to set up and provides great tools for free.
Content Management
Zero, zip, zilch, nada.* I've always had a soft spot for CMSs – and look at all these new headless CMSs!
But all the time I spend looking at them, learning them, and building a site toward their way of doing things takes away time from actually launching this website.
* The journal posts are written in a local copy of WordPress because it's easier to write, revise, and spellcheck there.