I Don't Know How To Blog
Wednesday 29th, January 2025
I'm dumb as hell. It's not that I don't know how to think.
The main issue, is that this site has been in technical debt from the very beginning, with my headers and links essentially hardcoded across all pages. So any change I would eventually make to this would have to be propogated across all extant pages. I did not want to do this.
Finally, last night I tried to figure it out in earnest and got this jquery solution working. Which, after some legwork, means I can now futz with my site navigation all I want, adding and removing new projects and directories way, way easier than before. This is great news!
Which brings me to my latest problem, which is that
I simply do not know the mechanics of how to do it! The main reason for this is that Neocities is NOT a blogging platform, and doesn't have any of the tools to help me quickly type out posts and automatically bundle them into a list.
But, I've spent the last while seeking out ways to smooth out these issues, things like Zonelets and Zonelots and Pelican but these options each fell apart because they didn't (apparently) give me the control I wanted.
Zonelots looks sick, but I haven't got a clue how to do something as simple as an add an external link to the header becasue there's some javascript stuff going on that I can't reverse engineer! Someone could, but I can't.
I WANT to know how this site works and all the things it does. I want to be able to fuck with that and problem solve without looking at someone elses work and not having a clue what's going on! This is my weird little thing and, like making games all by myself, I want it to me my own little cobbled together mess. Allow me this, please.
I'm in this annoying middle ground where the simple blogging platforms are too dull for the kind of tinkering I want to do, but any web technology more complicated than HTML and CSS is way out of my league.
So here I go, writing my little thoughts straight into the Neocities editor, knowing that nothing is coming to save me the hassle of going to the blog directory and adding the new post there, then updating my home page to point to this new post. This annoying little workflow is the thing that's stopped me from writing anything in so long (that and that i've been doing dope shit instead, its been a big year, more on that later) but fuck it. I do WANT to have a website with some stuff on it and fuck it if that stuff sucks! That was never the point!
There, my penance is paid, I have finally written the blog post about how I haven't blogged in a while. As all bloggers must.
and I enjoyed doing it! Thanks for reading.