Why Is This Site Built with C

Summary

Why Is This Site Built With C Created at: 2024-08-26 I've been writing about things on a personal website since 2017. Most of what I have written features in the category of notes-to-self. Mostly on how to do A or B. Only recently I've started polishing notes together and forming posts on specific topics. One thing I realised was preventing me of writing more frequently wasn't the lack of ideas (or motivation), but the trouble of having to deal with the website builder and platform I was using at the time. GitHub pages didn't exist at the time and the canonical way was to have an Apache server running the website in some web provider. I didn't know anything about Apache and the little I saw didn't interest me, so I looked for an alternative. I built my first website with Django (serviced by Nginx) in a server hosted on Digital Ocean. This is before the Droplets-era, so I had to rent an Ubuntu machine which costed $5.00 USD per month. That was a bit steep for a dev on a Brazilian salary considering I had to pay for other services too (registrar, email, etc). I was highly motivated to post things as I was still fresh in the web development world and wanted to know how everything worked. I also had no idea what I was doing and wanted my own website to be a sandbox where I could try new things out. That was my first mistake. Building a "static" website with Django is too cumbersome. You have to set up views, templates, run the server, get GitHub hooks for resetting the remote server in Digital Ocean when new commits are pushed, etc. Once the romantic view of a newbie blog-poster faded away, handling the whole apparatus to publish a note took more time than writing the note itself. At some point I had to make a switch before the website grew too big. My second take was to ditch the whole website and start from scratch using a static website generator. I decided to use Nuxt because I was using Vue at work and the whole set up looked simple to start with. It was nice in th...