2026-01-15 · meta, web

Hello, world

Every personal website starts with a post explaining the website. This is that post, kept deliberately short.

The stack:

• Content: Markdown files and a small meta.json per article, in a private GitHub repository. Writing a post is git push.
• Generator: blargh — a tiny programmer's static site generator. Templates are just JavaScript.
• Hosting: Cloudflare Pages with a custom domain and HTTPS.
• Automation: GitHub Actions builds, checks, deploys, and — when an article opts in via "social": true in its meta.json — syndicates a link to Bluesky, Mastodon, and LinkedIn. Exactly once per article, per network, tracked in a small JSON ledger committed to the repo.
• Syndication source of truth: /rss.xml. Everything else is a mirror.

That's it. No CMS, no database, no tracking, no cookie banner. If it can't be a text file, it doesn't belong here.