Maintaining a website by hand
When I made my second revision of my website, I set out to try and make in the most minimal way I could and that way happened to be editing HTML by hand.
Anyone familiar with the language knows it's many flaws and annoyances but I tried to convinse myself that they were worth it for the control it gave me.
But over the months I knew this was a bad idea: having to type every tag by hand grew tyring and by the time and my pinky would hurt for the next few days after writing an article.
This caused me to slow down writing articles which didn't really concern me at the time.
Regenerated Intrest
Cut to yesterday, I was watching s this brilliant video by Eric Murphey that, honestly, embarrased me
So I set out to find a nice and simple site generator to use.
HUGO
Eric Murphy and Luke Smith were using HUGO as their SSG but I decided against using it since it was programmed in GO and I don't like meme languages
saait and falling in love
Naturally I gravitated to the suckless guys and found that both drkhsh and hiltjo were using hiltjo's saait(1) which was described as 'The most boring static page generator', saai literally meaning boring in swamp german.
I knew I found my new SSG, it had really easy to create pages and templates and all the configuration you needed is adding the header and the footer in templates/index.html/header.html and templates/index.html/footer.html and adding your style.css and runnig a make command, first to compile and install the program and second to generate a pretty solid example page and view it with your $BROWSER (which was surf for me)
It also had a sister project smu(1) that enabled very simple conversion between Markdown and HTML.
All that and being licensed under the permissive and straight to the point ISC License made me fall in love again with blogging.
Converting my page and rebranding
As saait(1) and smu(1) allow me much comfort with generating articles I am commiting to writing 2 to 3 articles a week and this comes with a nice rebrand from "Abraham III's website" to "The New Frontier Post" which sounds a lot cooler.