Oh!!! oh shit!! I just realized last Wednesday marks the day I started building this blog. This means we've passed one year since Cohost announced shutting down and me scrambling to learn 11ty enough to slam this together, dropping three samples into a folder going "I sure hope I got this enough that this works". My first real post was on the 12th, and I don't think I had my workflow refined for at least another month. I was very very proud of my ability to sit down, read the documentation, understand what it meant without any doing, then sitting down and doing it with multiple changes to customize how the output behaved. I still am proud of that, tbh. Reading the manual is a skill, and I've got it pretty practiced. I recall a few roadblocks that were frustrating, but I was able to overcome them all and here we are, on my neat little site--with darkmode, colors that rotate every time I push a new page, automatic tag pages, and at least one log emoji
If my math is right, this is also the 201st post here, which. Wow, that rules??
This also means I am getting very near a year of not working towards features I wanna implement like "excerpt view" for the Posts page, whatever metadata I'm missing for pretty embeds on other sites, webmentions, and re-writing several bits of placeholder text that have basically become permanent. Will I do these things? I still have time.
I still miss cohost greatly. I am still in contact with many of my fellow chosties, but it is far less frequent and not the same. I am proud of what I've made here, and it really has fulfilled my goal of "a place to casually post". I hope you readers are proud of what you've done this year too