The reason is simple:
After years of backend-only experience, I want to learn the magical skills of frontend development
While I am now quite confident in creating headless systems that can interact with each other, I lack any experience with immplementing user-facing systems
For that reason, I decided to learn web frontends from the very basics: HTML, CSS and JS
Previously, I used the Hugo static site generator, a nice template, and fed it markdown files to construct this blog
Now, after having ditched Hugo, I am in the process of rectreating my blog by hand, first with HTML, followed by CSS, and maybe some vanilla JS if needed
My goal with this brute-force method is to learn as much about the technologies, their capabilities, and their limits.
I want to learn why SSGs became a thing, which pains caused the movement to fat JS frameworks, and all the other stuff surrounding the web
[x] Rewrite blog entirely in HTML
[ ] Style the blog using CSS
[ ] Create a custom SSG for simplifying content creation on this blog