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https://kobel.fyi/blog/hello-world.html

<p>Let's try this again. This time with more ways to publish and with even less between me and the code.</p> <p>Over the years I've spent a lot of time building websites. At first with static html that arrived at our home on an AOL CD-ROM. We didn't even have an internet connection back then, but there was an index.html file on that CD which I dissected and built my first homepage upon.</p> <p>I grew up and started putting more and more PHP into my HTML until I arrived at WordPress. That CMS accompanied me through a few years of self employment building sites for other people and way better, introduced me to the world of open source contribution. But WordPress got too bloated over the years.</p> <p>For this site I wanted something simpler. I played around with 11ty for a while, but I don't want to rely on package managers and build processes that can break at any time. It simply wasn't simple enough.</p> <p>This is how I arrived at this point: I'm writing everything myself in HTML and CSS (and Gemtext for Gemini). No frameworks, no AI, no CMS. Except of course on the Fediverse, where I use a PieFed community on my selfhosted instance to host this blog. I'm finally having fun building again, not just configuring tools and setting up systems.</p> <p>Why? Because I love it, I like to write clean code myself and I understand everything that's happening.</p>