i set this thing up with a static site generator made in python thinking it would be nice to have a small web 1.0 blog type place to post stuff nobody cares about. the site generator is nice in that i can modify it completely and know how it works top to bottom, but i am finding that this is some serious nerd shit with things i need to work out. but first let me explain

why the static site generator is good

each post is to be a text file (well, a markdown file) in a directory. when i write a new post i create a new file and when i'm done i run a script and it builds all the pages with the templates ive given it and then it uploads them to the site here. no fucken javascript or php or database or backend of any kind, kind of cool. thats my type of shit. the more i learn about computers the more i hate them doing things that i don't understand

what i still have to figure out

images

if i want to put images in my posts, such as of my idiot dog or a nice sunset, i will place it in the images directory. seems easy enough. but! there will need to be some script or something that generates a smaller version so the big fuck-off 20mb jpeg doesn't just automatically come through first. a hand fetishist solved this on the internet years ago-- i will need to create "thumb nails" !!!! but of course if i automate this as part of the publishing process, the thumb nail would not exist until i run the final publish script, after writing the post and putting the original image in the images folder. and that post would need to already have the necessary html to display the thumb nail (which doesnt exist) and the link to the big boy. you can see how this introduces a rather stupid chicken or the egg problem. (no thanks, i'll have the fish!!!!) probably it will involve some other script to process the image before the other script. i will do this some other time

the fuck am i going to write about

who can say. the world is an oyster. maybe i will not post at all