Opnemer.org

static

You may have noticed, the site looks slightly different. The server Opnemer.org is running on is ancient, and there was no way to keep the Wordpress installation up to date.

The solution wat to revert to a static site. No more PHP or MySQL dependencies, no more unpatched vulnerabilities, and --hopefully-- a much faster site.

A blog like structure is impossible to maintain in pure html. Fortunately, there's something called a Static Site Generator: the general structure of the site still resembles something you'd see on a typical Wordpress installation but the entire thing is generated locally, using Markdown or RestructuredText files as source code.

There's a bunch of them, and I suppose the most popular ones are

• Jekyll (Ruby based)
• Hugo (Go based)
• Gatsby (React/Javascript based. There's a whole bunch of JS based SSGs out there)
• Zola (Rust based)
• Pelican (Python based)

I picked Pelican. There's still much to learn but I'm getting there.

Next on the TODO-list: Make this prehistoric layout responsive to smaller screens. Guess I'll be learning about CSS Grid now, too.