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[ Hello Again | easthighNerd ]
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Hello Again
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<h1 id="hello-again">Hello Again</h1>
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<p>Well howdy there!</p>
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<p>I’ve… kinda not done anything on here for a while now, huh?</p>
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<p>I mean, I updated the look of my website to function kinda like
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Windows XP, but I haven’t really done much in the way of blogging since…
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2023?!</p>
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<p>Damn, over a year and a half huh?</p>
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<h2 id="what-ive-been-up-to">What I’ve Been Up to</h2>
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<p>Where should I begin…</p>
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<p>Oh, I know!</p>
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<p>Major one first, I’ve got a girlfriend now!</p>
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<p>We’ve been together for about as long as it’s been before my last
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blog posts regarding Apple stuff (she’s not responsible for my lack of
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blogging I swear!)</p>
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<p>She’s funny, smart, kind, sweet, and just a genuinely awesome person,
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I truly love her from the bottom of my heart!</p>
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<p>Anyways, enough of the mushy stuff</p>
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<p>I’ve been playing
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<a href="https://sao-if-en.bn-ent.net/" target="_blank">Sword Art
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Online: Integral Factor</a> since about March or April, and it’s been
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pretty fun!</p>
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<p>Been playing a bunch of
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<a href="https://www.warframe.com/" target="_blank">Warframe</a> as
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usual, however I’ve kinda been sleeping on it for a while now, just
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kinda been taking a break, I’ll be back on it again with a vengeance
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once Isleweaver drops on the 25th</p>
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<p>Also have been playing some Battlefield 4 with some peoples recently
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on PC (so nice to play this game again, miss my stuff from Xbox though),
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and also played R.E.P.O. for the first time as well!</p>
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<p>Outside of gaming stuff, I’ve switched all my computers (sans my
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media PC (soon TM)) to Debian, with ZFS on root, and ZFSBootMenu</p>
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<p>Been running Debian Trixie on them all, which at the time of writing
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this is still in Testing, but is expected to become Stable potentially
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next month</p>
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<p>I also installed Debian Bookworm with the same setup on my neighbor’s
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laptop, and will be doing the same for their new-to-them desktop once
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the remaining components that were missing have arrived</p>
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<p>Shifting gears into Apple related stuff, I got the M2 iPad Air when
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it came out, in blue, along with the Apple Pencil Pro to go along with
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it</p>
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<p>I also got my hands on two (2) black HomePod Minis a few months ago
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that were on clearance at a big box retailer near where I work for
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around $50 USD each</p>
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<p>And they work rather nicely as stereo speakers for the Apple TV 4K
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(with ethernet) that I ordered new off the Apple Store app</p>
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<h2 id="are-you-done-yet">Are You Done Yet?</h2>
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<p>I suppose so</p>
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<p>Well anyways, with the <a
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href="/blog/2025/06/static-site-generators">recent redoing of how I
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craft my website</a>, I should be doing more blog posts now, whenever I
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can think of something that I wanna write about, since all I gotta do
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now is write the Markdown for them and have my WebGen script take care
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of the rest for me</p>
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<p>Here’s a fun fact before I sign off,
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<a href="https://www.kate-editor.org" target="_blank">Kate</a> has a
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spell check toggle that I didn’t know about, which means I can use my
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favorite text editor to write these blog posts while still catching any
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incorrect spellings I might make along the way!</p>
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Static Site Generators
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<h1 id="static-site-generators">Static Site Generators</h1>
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<p>You’ve likely heard of static site generators before, there certainly
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seems to be no shortage of them</p>
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<a href="https://www.gohugo.io/" target="_blank">Hugo</a>,
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<a href="https://www.jekyllrb.com/" target="_blank">Jekyll</a>, and
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<a href="https://www.11ty.dev/" target="_blank">11ty</a></p>
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<p>I personally have never found static site generators appealing,
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primarily because I didn’t want to be constrained to what themes were
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available to them, nor did I want to have to craft my website around how
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a given static site generator functioned</p>
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<p>I also am “one of those” types of people that like to remove as many
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layers of abstraction as I can from what I am doing, and get down into
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the nitty gritty of things, partially because I want to know how they
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work, partially because I want to not be reliant on a layer of
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abstraction that hides what’s going on under the hood from me</p>
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<p>That said, at least for the ones that you generate from Markdown
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files, I can see the appeal, since Markdown is easy to write, meaning
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you can, say, publish blog posts more often and more easily, compared to
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having to write out all the HTML each time you want to make a new one
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(even if you have an HTML file saved somewhere that has most of what’s
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needed in it already, ya still have to write the new HTML in there)</p>
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<p>I personally like writing out the HTML, it allows me to fine-craft my
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site to be exactly how I like it, although it can be rather time
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consuming to do, even for something so simple as writing a blog post or
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something (which I totally do on the regular…)</p>
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<h2 id="where-i-was">Where I Was</h2>
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<p>So the most recent version of my website (as of late June 2025) was
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completely hand-crafted in HTML and CSS</p>
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<p>I wrote everything in raw HTML, from the initial page where ya click
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the power button on the monitor to get into the site proper, to any blog
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posts I had written, which while fun, honestly did make it a slight
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chore when I wanted to make a new page, or write a new blog post (same
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difference for all intents and purposes)</p>
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<h2 id="what-i-used-to-do">What I Used to Do</h2>
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<p>Before the most recent (again, at the time of writing) redesign of my
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website, I made a nice little Bash script I called WebGen</p>
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<p>It’s a wrapper for a program called
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<a href="https://www.pandoc.org/" target="_blank">Pandoc</a>, which can
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take multiple kinds of document files (i.e. Markdown) as input, and
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convert them into multiple other kinds of document files (i.e. HTML) as
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output</p>
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<p>Pandoc also has the ability to use ‘template’ files for the output,
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allowing, say, an HTML file to be used as a template that the content
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of, say, a Markdown file, can be slapped into at a specific place in the
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HTML</p>
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<p>So my little WebGen script would scour a directory for Markdown
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files, convert them into HTML, put the converted HTML into the
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designated spot in the template HTML file, and output that to an HTML
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file where specified by the Markdown file</p>
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<p>Twas pretty simple</p>
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<h2 id="what-im-doing-now">What I’m doing now</h2>
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<p>After doing the whole “I’m gonna write everything on this website
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from complete scratch” thing for a while, I decided I’d take a look at
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that old WebGen script of mine again</p>
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<p>I modified it to source a config file that houses where the root
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directory of the website is, where the Markdown files are kept, and
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where the template HTML files are located</p>
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<p>The Markdown files now contain the title of the page (which Pandoc
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puts in the final output HTML), the name of the template HTML file to
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use, and the location of the new page relative to the web root</p>
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<p>So the script crawls the directory of Markdown files, one-by-one
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parses the location and template from each Markdown file, and does the
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aforementioned stuff, and bang, web pages!</p>
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<h2 id="long-story-short">Long Story Short</h2>
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<p>I cleaned up WebGen, made some new template HTML files from the two
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main page styles of my website, and am using it again for non-bespoke
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pages on my website, especially blog posts</p>
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<h2 id="if-i-wanna-use-this-thing-of-yours-myself-where-can-i-get-it">If
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I Wanna Use This Thing of Yours Myself, Where Can I Get it?</h2>
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<p>I’ll have it up on my Gitea whenever I get around to spinning up a
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new instance of it, and I’ll update this here post when I do</p>
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<p>I also plan on rewriting WebGen in Python so that people on OSes
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besides Linux can make use of it if they so wish</p>
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