I'm back, 10 days later!

Things might look a little different around here. No? It looks exactly the same? You'll just have to trust me on this one. I've completely converted my site from a static website into one I am building with 11ty (Eleventy), a Static Site Generator.

They really don't warn you that this shit is fucking exhausting. I would consider myself a semi-professional web developer but only in the sense that I build standalone pages and cool web toys. This was my first time playing with the Big Boy Tools.

Here are some reasons I shifted over:

• Can write all my blog posts in Markdown (if you use Discord, you've probably used Markdown), which comes much more naturally to me than HTML tags
• I managed to convert my long-ass gallery code into a "shortcode": an IMG tag nestle in A tags is now just %galleryimg "billy"%. So I can dynamically add crap to my portfolio without feeling like I want to put my head through the wall, which means I might actually UPDATE MY PORTFOLIO :)
• I want to return to my website. New YouTube policies are obscenely horrible; the Wobbledog days of summer are over (hey, that's funny)

Some idle concerns:

• Tidy up the folders (is professional web dev always this messy?)
• Maybe one day distribute a cleaner template so other people can build their own websites like this one. Would that be cool?
• I would like to make my own 88x31 website icon to hopefully be an honorary member of the Neocities ecosystem, which reminds me that I need to update the favico, but I like it as a logo, but no one recognizes it anymore, AHHHHHH

Some quotes from my journey:

• "Are you sure you want to delete crying?"
• "OPEN WHYY NOW ."
• "Hi all, I was wondering if hugo has the ability to create a mind map"
• [Picture of Hugo Habercore from Bob's Burgers on top of an orange and pink pride flag.] "WHAT FLAG IS THAT" "Who care" "LESBIAN 2?" "Nope"
• "Version 0 is used by 100.0% of all the websites who use Hugo."
• "OPEN BEGGING"
• "Im in thre bad place."
• "i cant take it anymore"
• "hugo"
• "Hugo! Attend to my markdown."
• "hugover: the hugo version to use." "this nearly broke me. i was about to start screaming WHAT THE FUCK IS A HUG OVER"
• "Quick Start Video - Sorry! It's not finished yet. We're shooting it right now."
• "I looked into Butter CMS recently."
• "I use Fork,"
• "Pelican - a static site generator powered by Python" "PUT WEBSITE IN PELICAN MOUTH" "there is no snake in pelican mouth Prromise"
• "SEO is important for the site. You want to work with plugins. You are fine with working with Liquid." "It cant keep going"
• "NO I WAS TRICKED INTO LIQUID"
• "Next up: we're going to start diggint into HTML and Nunjucks," "adn then i saw this and i was done for the night."

Fucking HUGO aside (I do recommend Eleventy), this is so exciting for me. I really have so much shit I can do now.