Showing my Stuff

I have stuff - we all do - and I want to show it, somehow.

Thing is, like many people, I really don't like how the modern Web is going nor the software involved. I'm more of a "less is more" kinda person, whatever that means. Luckily, there are helpful resources like the smolweb that already document how to make nice and tiny websites.

I also don't know yet exactly how I want to show that stuff - which is kind of a problem - and I'd also rather not fiddle around with different generators to figure that out. This calls for some weird solution.

For the forseeable future, I'll write directly in HTML, using only semantic HTML tags. I'll format it with some whitespace but also omit all optional markup. I'm basically half-minifying the source by hand in the hope that it is light enough to be served directly while still being readable and easily workable on. This is particularly convenient as I'm using a git based static hosting solution called Codeberg Pages and having two repos or branches feels like a pain.

I'm aware that I could be saving more with "full" minification but hopefully this approach and the maintenance work that it saves makes everything worth it.

I'm going to eventually style everything with some light CSS too (I'm already experimenting a bit) but everything should be readable without it - no huge SVGs, no overlapping stuff, just well-tagged text. I'm still not sure about the final looks but I'm looking for something as accessible as possible. I'll do some real research once I have something to actually style :P

Talking about content, the main body of text I'll work on will be a "remastering" of my "kiss-scripts" note stash. I'm rephrasing it and porting it to HTML.

The CSS will be linked so that I'll only need to change one place. If this approach works I'm goint to call it "zero-maintenance HTML" because, ideally, once you write it you should never need to touch it again unless you want to change its actual content, which should be very easy.

That said, nothing is set in stone. Requirements and solutions will change. Fasten your seatbelts.