New website

I'm again attempting to run a personal website and blog. This time using the static site generator Eleventy.

I’ve previously tried running a personal website using a VPS service. This ended up being an ongoing nice technical excercise in swapping frameworks, databases, web servers and TLS setup, but never spawned much actual content. Trying again, this site is built using Eleventy, and hosted on Cloudflare pages. This, I hope, will make it more about the content of the site and not all.

Eleventy is a static site generator, designed to be flexible. It seems to be the new cool SSG nowadays, so I decided to try it out for this site. I might do a write-up of what I think of it once I’ve used it for a while.

Cloudflare Pages lets me simply point at a GitHub repository where this site resides, and will then run an eleventy-build for me on every commit. This is the same kind of service provided by e.g. Netlify, but reading up on the differences between the two I ended up selecting the relative newcomer Cloudflare Pages for my hosting and deployment.

Hopefully, the threshold for actually posting something when it’s only a Markdown file and a git commit & git push away will be lower than my earlier “SSH into a server and edit an HTML file with vim”-approach.

The reason why I’m (again) trying to set up a website for myself is mainly because I missed the time where everyone on the internet usually had a small corner for themselves, which they had full control over, before we ended up with giving Facebook et al. the power to decide how peoples presence on the web should look like.

I might not use this site much, but now I at least have somewhere to dump my thoughts (other than social media, which I use less and less) if I one day should feel the need for such a thing.