Hello World
After years of shared hosting powering my presence online, I'm trying something new - a static site generated by Eleventy.
It's not that Wordpress is bad at what it does, but I'm nostalgic for the simpler times of the Internet that I started learning to develop websites on, a quarter of a century ago.
I was making websites back when <table> tags were the only way to make a competent layout. Rounded corners were predrawn bitmaps and put in <td> tags that only existed to make a fancy border. Javascript frameworks like MooTools and jQuery were years away, and there was nothing terribly semantic about how we cobbled our code together.
And there was something so nice about typing in Notepad, saving a file with the right extension, and seeing it seconds later in Netscape or IE. No build steps required.
I wasn't using artificial intelligence to make my websites. Adobe Dreamweaver had its season but it was hardly generative AI.
In some ways it feels like that forgotten path is a better one:
- This content is simple enough to live on the edge - literally the edge network of Cloudflare and its best of class CDN.
- The simplicity means it's low impact in terms of financial and environmental cost.
- I'm not playing whack-a-mole with CVEs because the static site is mere HTML, CSS, and JS. There are few things in life that carefree to a cybersecurity professional.
So here's a walk down that forgotten path. Before ads and algorithms ruled our lives, before blockchain and AI were all the buzz.
Thank you for coming along.
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