Setting up Zola for fun and profit. Also, hello world!

I've made a lot of blogs, but I never really maintained any of them as I would lose interest after the first couple of posts or so.

Let's hope things are different this time!

With that out of the way, let's talk about the cool stuff.

Zola

This blog (as of writing) is built on the Jamstack.

I am using a static-site generator called Zola. I write my posts in Markdown, and Zola converts them to HTML pages using some templates. And it's fast. Right now, with only one post, it takes just 6ms to generate the whole site!

I've used Hugo and 11ty in the past, but they felt a bit overkill for my little blog and I wanted to try something different and preferably a bit more minimal.

I was actually planning to cobble together my own static-site generator using pandoc and some shell scripts, but VicFic saved my sanity and suggested Zola.

So, I followed Zola's getting-started guide and set things up. I wrote my own CSS and I ported over my old homepage to Zola. It was pretty smooth and less things went wrong than I had anticipated.

Styling

I'm using SCSS to write the stylesheets. The font is IBM Plex Mono which I got from xz/fonts.

Hosting

It's hosted on the wonderful Codeberg Pages.

Conclusion

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I'm terrible at making conclusions.
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