the irony of posting this on a blog platform
I've had a lot of thoughts running through my head lately, between notebook setups and website hosting. It's surely a coincidence but website hosting specifically has come up more often than not. Recently it's been people hand coding their own sites, or desiring to ditch their blog host for their own thing.
I have no interest in building my own blog again (I have a photo blog, and it works, and I dread going through and upgrading it to 11ty 3.0 but I know I'll need to). If that parenthetical aside didn't tell you, I don't enjoy the process of maintaining self hosted applications. I'll do it if it's easy, but having tried setting up a new 11ty project from scratch and not being able to get plugins to work - well, upgrading is for sure less desirable at the moment.
But designing something by hand, something simple - that I can do. I'm just talking about a personal landing site. But realistically I could probably create an RSS feed manually, I think I've done that before. It's also not hard. Time consuming? Yes. Difficult? No.
Design - like, complicated CSS design - something not my forté but even that I would simplify as well. There are probably aspects of my site that would suffer, but they probably also aren't going to be a part of my site going forward (week notes).
I'm likely not changing anything right now. Just some thoughts I had.