I want to make myself a blog as somewhat of a living resume.

This is mainly because my passion for personal projects speaks more than my actual day to day at work and I'd like to document my escapades in an open source way that I could point others to if they wanted to re-create something I did.

I'm not a web guy, I can do basic HTML templates and a flask backend. I'm sure I could manage a django backend with minor CSS but I'm wondering what else is out there. I love finding weird guy blogs, I keep a list of them, and I'd like my own weird guy blog to do weird guy stuff on. I don't want it to look super fancy, but I also want something more than bare HTML on a white background.

I really just don't know what kinds of tools, frameworks, etc are out there and everything points to high level squarespace type all-in-one setups and I like to be more technical than that.

  • StewartCopelandsDad [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Second the recommendation for a static pages site. Can't link it here cuz name, but I have a little self-hosted blog+site with a professional section I'm proud of. My resume is in LaTeX, and I found a thing that would let me turn it into valid HTML that would look good with CSS from the rest of my site. So I only have to update professional stuff once.

    I did it with make and Jinja2 (the Flask template engine) into my existing Apache server but that was stupid and I added so much stuff I should have just used an off-the-shelf static site generator to begin with.