Making This

For the longest time, I didn't really care to make a blog, but what's the point of misadventures if there's nobody to see them? I mean, that's not the reason I'm making this blog, but that's a nice idea.

So on the tech in this thing, it's very simple, it's very basic, a generated static site on gitlab pages (f u github). I thought about using one of the more established generators, like Jekyll or Hugo or whatever is the Python one but then I didn't really feel like going down the Ruby legacy lane, or installing Go (f u google, also all of Go's technical issues), or going to Python's slugfest (though Python would probably still be faster than Ruby).

I am then forced to look to the one language I don't hold much grudge against, Rust. What Rust static site generators are there you ask? It seems there are mainly two: Zola and Cobalt (and mdBook, but that isn't very flexible and I feel if I opened up somebody's blog and it looked like Rust library documentation I'd die on the spot). I first tried Zola, it had lotsa stars and seemed okay, however after using it for a bit (about 2 minutes) I came to the conclusion it was overcomplicated and actually too flexible (if you came here from a newer blog post where I say this was a grave mistake, sorry future me), so I went with Cobalt in the end, which seems to be much more blog focused.

For the CSS, I ended up straight up just using Tufte CSS umodified, perhaps I'll mod it later, but frankly, I'm not a web developer and it doesn't interest me much.

Also I might just end up scrapping all of this once (or if) typst gets an HTML backend, so that's fun.