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Background
I’ve been avoidant of working with web stuff for a while lately. All my projects and everywhere they touch the web has been suffering for it.
2007 - Band CMS Project
I actually was dabling with the web before I started with mobile. An early project was a CMS for bands that seemed like an obvious intersection of my interests. I knew bands could use the Internet to broaden their reach. That was 2007. Looking back on the music industry since then, I don’t wish I’d taken that further. I was still burning CDs.
2009 - WordPress
I had a few other web projects over the next couple years but ended up settling into WordPress for a CMS and left good enough alone. I could install it, basic config and just let it be. I did have a brief foray into static site generation and that really made sense to me. Seeing new static site gen systems pop up had me interested in trying my hand at that.
2013 - Early Staic Website Gen
I would like to be able to put up a clean, modern site for work and some personal projects so I’m staring with a reboot of this website.
bolt.new I spotted an interesting AI site generator and just described the kind of personal site I’d like to put up. It gave me an Astro website. It didn’t work. With some coaxing I was able to get it going enough to be inspired to finally dig back into web.
The project is to launch a website and
Goals: Sharpen skills for other projects Do more writting
Approach: Static website GitOps Content driven