Recently, I finished an almost final draft of my novel and decided it was time to refresh my online presence and website. Instead of starting my next novel, I dove into creating the next version of my site, what I call alejandromp4. And, of course, you know what that means… using a new static site generator! Yes, I have a problem with focusing my hobbies; I’m working on it.
Now that I have this site building on Netlify I wanted to start writing more far away from my computer. Of course I immediatly found a bit more friction that I had to solve.
With the whole move to Mastodon, I’ve been thinking a lot about owning my content again and what will happen with all the interesting things I’ve written on Twitter. That’s a topic that is worth its own post, but it got me thinking about focusing more on this blog again.
Welcome to alejandromp3. As you may have noticed this website has a totally new design! Not only that, but is now using a different static site generator purely in Swift!
I haven’t been doing much maintenance to this website since I migrated to GatsbyJS, but recently Gatsby has announced its 2nd major release. This is a big step forward for this amazing static site generator and I didn’t want to wait much to use it’s cool new capabilities.
On every new iteration of my website I’m always happy to have taken the decision of using a static site generator instead of a big and fat CMS. This gives me the freedom to change the hosting easily and now I’m taking the opportunity to move to Netlify.
This days, between watching WWDC sessions, I’m undergoing the renewal of this my personal website and blog.
Lately I’ve been working on move my site, again, to Jekyll. Using directly the original Jekyll and keeping my customizations apart from the source I think that I accomplished what I wanted and at the same time I don’t will not have much problem to keep up with updates.