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+title: Building This Site
+date: 2025-04-10
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+I care about thoughtful design, and forcing your visitors to download dozens of
+megabytes of assets and JavaScript dependencies just to read a single article
+doesn't feel very thoughtful to me. That's why I've committed to a 1 megabyte
+upper limit for every page on this site. There's also no point for there to be
+any JavaScript here, so I'd rather not include it, even if some fancy features
+may rely on it.
+
+My goal on this website is simply to share my thoughts. I can't really do that
+if I'm distracted by the framework. There should be minimal barriers between
+having an idea, and turning it into a blog post.
+
+I think the simplest and most elegant way to build a personal website, and the
+approach I've taken here, is to use a Markdown-based static site generator.
+Markdown is _nice_ (although I do have some complaints), and because the
+building blocks are so simple, the output should be cleanly viewable even on an
+old copy of Internet Explorer.
+
+Now, I must admit, I _did_ take the unnecessarily complicated route of building
+my **own** static site generator. It's probably unnecessary, considering how
+many great tools already exist, but what can I say? I like building stuff.
+
+Now, I have a system where I can update this site with very little effort. All I
+need to do is add a new file, write some content in Markdown, and commit it to
+the repo.