Pure html

Writing a website in html only instead of a static site generator

I decided to create my own website on the onion network, but since I was hosting everything myself on a raspberryPi it had to be easy, simple, fast, safe and not suck.

The answer was a static site with html and very basic css. I didn't want to manage a hosted wordpress or anything similar since I don't care at all to social integrations, visitor statistics, comments (someday maybe?). Fist I started looking at the most popular static site generators like jekyll, but managing environments and dependencies is a pain. So no ruby or javascript with their own package management solutions, I have pacman for that already.

I found hugo, it's written in Go and ships a binary that i can simply run. It seemed simple enough so I gave it a try. After tweaking the theme a bunch I ended up with something that I liked, but it looked almost the same as a website with only sakura for css and a super simple html.

Comparing to doing everything myself, Hugo allows me to write in markdown which is much nicer that pure html and it generates the website based on the theme I selected. The downside is that It generates some other files that I don't really know what they are for.

So I went ahead with my pure html solution that you are looking at right now. To recreate some niceties that hugo offers I wrote a short python script. It can be found here.

With this python script I can use the command

$ new_post post-name

and it creates a new html based on a template that i created and adds a link to the new page in the index.html. It also adds the date of creation automatically so I don't loose myself in a bunch of files.

With the command

$ new_post go