Website Done!
サイトは済みました
About this site and its future going forward
Howdy! Welcome to the new and improve version of my portfolio and blog. It has taken me awhile to construct how I wanted the design and functionality to be, however I think I hit the jackpot with how everything is organized. I put a lot of sweat, blood (well… ok not blood), and heart into creating, in my opinion, an effective web page to showcase my interests and personality.
About the site
I struggled for a bit with deciding whether to create a blog from scratch using nextJS or utilizing one of many static site generators (SSG) that exist. I spent a lot of time spacing out at my laptop screen in the thinking man position. Boy, did I space out. But I remembered the joys of stumbling upon a random blog and reading the thoughts and opinions of individuals that had a passion to share what they loved. I miss that. So I raised my shoulders back and decided to use a static site generator to help me express, convey, and elaborate more quickly and effortlessly my own thoughts and experiences. But which ‘SSG’ should use? There exists a lot of good generators (like 11ty), but I eventually decided to stick with good old reliable Jekyll. I spent a few days picking out a design and later modifying it to fit my needs. Then, BAM! Whoosh! ZAP! This site was born!
Technical things about this site
- No trackers are used (I don’t really need info about who’s viewing site)
- No ads, never!
- It’s light on JavaScript, and all pictures are in WebP format (maybe down the line I’ll switch to AVIF)
- Jekyll is used to make this site and I modified this theme by Youssef Raafat
- I could have a way to handle Japanese and English text on document load, but since it’s just text and since I’m not too verbose, I’ll save myself the hassle
So, what’s next?
Well? Goooooooood question, glad you thought that, and, if you didn’t, it’s okay, I still love you. Just adding some projects to showcase, translating a few things into Japanese, and writing some awesome blog posts for you to read is what’s next in the pipeline.
Also, if you took the time to read this all the way through, thank you! I really appreciate it! I hope this is a site you’ll bookmark and revisit every now and then. Until time next, See Ya Space Cowboy!