Version 2.0

If you’re new here, welcome! Have a look around. For both of you who’ve visited in the last year and a half, the site looks massively different than it did before. In January 2025, I decided I wanted my own little corner of the Internet again, and set it up on a service called Bear. Bear is an awesome place to get a site, particularly a blog, off the ground. Herman has built a fantastic platform, and it made a great launchpad to get my blogging life started again. While fleshing out my Bear site, and personalizing it to be my own, I did occasionally run into some of Bear’s guardrails that make it a great system in general, but a little constrictive for what I wanted the site to be. Meanwhile, I had started hunting for ways to set up another web project I was considering. The more I learned about static site generators in general, and Jekyll in particular, the more the gears started turning. Two main thoughts bubbled to the top: What’s changed in basic web page development (HTML and…