New Website
Okay, I've done it yet again and redesigned my site. This time I picked up a VPS from Vultr and bought my own domain name on the cheap. I'm using a custom blog program I'm writing inspired by
Luke Smith's lb blog system which includes a more scalable, flexible and configurable design, written in python, to manage this blog as I think it's a very nice and elegant solution to blogging. I strongly dislike his political stances, but some of his takes on technology aren't bad.
This is more or less my new public profile, like a Facebook page, but instead of renting a room from Mark Zuckerberg, I instead own my own plot of land on the Internet, so to speak. Of course, I've always loved the idea of having my own personal website - I had a Neocities back in 2016 which was full of early-internet inspired garbage, a review site hosted from there in 2018 and 2019, I worked on my own social network, and I even had some really rubbishy freewebs site as a kid. However, I always felt limited by the static nature of Neocities' pure HTML and JS, and by the rigid frameworks presented by Webs.com and other site builders.
Using a VPS has been freeing. I'm hosting my own email (send me some stuff at
alex@alexkyron.xyz, and working on setting up other features like a search instance and some web apps I'm working on. It's a place to put my projects and post what's on my mind without limits, and enjoy simply creating without the pressures of modern social media.
I'm planning on setting up some
projects later to talk about.
I'm using MarkedJS so I can do **fancy markdown stuff** which is cool too.