Refactor Web Journal

I originally created this site to be a simple web 2.0 blog site with text entries for thoughts that did not fit into my work-related geospatial blog. However, as I found myself creating more bespoke sites, both for a specific hobby and also as an outlet for my web development curiosity, I realized I needed a landing page for all the feeds to come together. To date I have a photo site, a geospatial blog, this site, and a music site which is still in development. So I thought why not combine all these feeds into one place, and tag on my esoteric journal entries - and what better place than my personal domain name (how lucky is that!).

This expanded feed-music-blog-photo site is still an avenue for exploring new web technologies like dash streaming audio while serving as a landing page for all my web projects, links and books. It's more expansive than a simple single-themed blog site, as it attempts to encompass a larger snapshot of my expression and character. While I could expand it further with all my Bluesky or other social media posts, I figured that might be taking things a bit too far.

On the technical side, this site is now built using a custom static generator using cheerio and es6 templates, so no framework and minimal, custom CSS. It uses GitHub issues as the "CMS" which makes it simple to maintain.