Wednesday, June 11th
This site has been created primarily with a command line interface and various free programs, including VIM, GNU, SSH, and rsync. The benefit for this is clear, I understand how my website functions and how to maintain it at a very low level. I do not use proprietary website software like what is common to use for modern websites, no squarespace, wordpress, or the like. It really isn't needed.
That being said, doing things like this I do need to make for myself a lot of the tools people might take for granted in administrating a website. I have to do this through a mix of bash scripting, aliases, and creative application of CSS and HTML.
For example, I would like to have a navigation bar for the whole site, so that there can be a consistent bar to navigate, that also changes based on mobile or desktop access. For this blog I would like to also have a navigation bar similar to old webcomics, with a first post, back, home, forward, and most recent buttons. I also need a more straightforward way of making posts, since copying my last post as a template for the mext one, updating the links in the previous post, and the index is pretty slow, and there's probably a better way to do it. A way of taking info from each post, including title, date, and tags, and displaying them in the index would be nice.
I also have simple tasks I just need to get around to, making these blog posts appear without their .html extensions.
These might be really easy to use with closed source tools, and probably even open sourced tools, but I like the DIY approach. It's nice editting these pages in HTML, even though it's a little messy.