I was exploring on WebTiles, as one does, and I saw something that caught my eye...

And that's when it hit me.

It's been 3 weeks since my site's been updated publicly.

The reason why is that I spent 2 weeks trying to figure out how to write a static site generator in C before giving up.

Honestly sounds like a pretty dumb idea, but I was confident in it working, I even outlined the whole thing in org-mode with Doom Emacs! (which i also need to talk about...)

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the process

The plan was to take in Markdown files, do string shenanigans, and spit out HTML to be added onto the blog. After I started, I realized that dealing with strings and file i/o in C was really hard, and frustrated me. Maybe I just wasn't locked in though.

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more stuff soon?

Obviously. The blog was really the last part of the site I was trying to finish, but I was so stuck up on having it parse Markdown instead of just writing it in HTML.

(i should've listened...)