Sounds already too complex for me.

I wrote my post as Gemtext (the Gemini markdown) and wrote a python script that convert it to HTML and generate an index page.

Also, I put the CSS in each page because I’ve 42 lines of CSS and I did the math to show that having 42 more lines in each file would never cost more than having a second http request.

Honestly, it was a lot simpler than expected, without using any python library or any template. The hardest part was generating the email to send to the list. I spent month analysing different frameworks, different static site generators. I spent week trying to find a good CSS.

According to the git history, it took me 2 weeks of hacking to get it done including importing 18 years of Wordpress history. And without having to learn anything because it was straight python. And the best of all is that I can easily change/correct if I’ve a bug. It’s my code.

We, computer scientists, forgot completely that we could simply code adhoc solutions instead of trying to reuse everything. We take more time to learn and adapt than to do.

https://git.sr.ht/~lioploum/ploum.net for the code

(the site itself is https://ploum.net)