New Site, Who Dis?
I've been intending to make a new website for a long time, but for whatever reason it was never something that interested me or I felt was a priority. I still don't feel like it's a priority, but for similarly nebulous reasons, it is now a thing that interests me.
The old site was made a long time ago, when I was learning how to use aws and wanted a project that would utilize various aspects of the aws ecosystem, lambda, s3, dynamodb, etc. I decided to make a personal website, but having spent many years in the wordpress ecosystem at that point, I wanted a static website, not one that, like wordpress, was constructed dynamically on a server. Using jinja and lambda functions, I built my own little custom static site generator, and even a wysiwyg interface for entering new blog posts. And then I promptly didn't do anything with the site for like a decade.
The new site is also built using a static site generator, the difference is that now those types of things are common, and don't require that I roll my own. Having used 11ty before and enjoyed the experience, I decided to use 11ty for this new site.
Maybe this time I'll do stuff with it and not let it sit for a decade.