Here lives the code for my personal website. The project is designed to be minimally-dependent on other software, so you'll quickly notice that I don't use any sort of static site generator (SSG). In fact, I'm sort of building my own. As others have written, SSGs -- like Hugo, Gatsby, Jekyll -- are designed with universality in mind: they try to be everything to everyone, and can add a lot of unneeded complexity to a small project like this one.
My primary goal for my website is to focus on the content. The site should be readable, fast, accessible, and navigable: if these criteria are not met, I'm off course and need to correct.
Read more about my website's design principles.
My writing process is simple and decidedly manual. For any blog posts, I use Notion to handle the actual writing process: drafting, editing, and so forth. Once I'm finished, I'll export the content as Markdown and use showdown to convert the Markdown into HTML that I can insert into my site (specifically, I'll use my custom createPost.js script).
I'll then set up all the technical boilerplate (i.e. an entry in blog/ and a hyperlink from blog.html to the new post). Once I push to the main branch, Netlify will take care of deploying the new code automatically.
Aside from being a home for my public persona, this project also represents my foray into fundamental web technologies. I aim to understand every part of my stack: from the hosting and DNS layer all the way up to the site's CSS styles. I seldom work software where I can understand every piece of the stack (including my dependencies), and that is what makes my personal website all the more interesting to build.
I commit to keeping my website code open-source and writing about its development process and design decisions as much as possible. I'd love to see more people understanding their software from a deeper level: an easy way to enforce this for myself is to build a website with pure HTML and CSS.
There are a number of personal websites/blogs I've taken inspiration from. In no particular order: