lol… https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntactic_sugar programmers are the worst. even worse than scientists

Now that is irony.

I am convinced by your various posts that you are NOT a paid promoter of Eleventy.

i'm so emotionally invested in this project

Not that I was thinking about using a static site generator, but this is affirming my sense that it's easier to code by hand than use one. Which is wild.

The idea is that USING it will be easy. Initial setup is the pain point (I hope). I would definitely be very selective who I recommended this to.

I want my pain points to be consistently painful throughout.

tried a ssg years ago when i first started using neocities, way too much upfront pain for not enough relief afterwards, in my experience. a few spreadsheets codes i've written to autopopulate things and copy + pasting pages has made hand coding the only approach i'll take now

My previews don't seem to be previewing but I'm doing something plenty dumb, don't you worry

I think so much of the peoblem with tech documentation is people assuming if it makes sense in their head, it makes sense for everyone. A lot of my job is going "oh! Yeah, that's the blue button, don't worry about the instructions," snark free from my end, that I think there needs to be a revolution in how-tos.

It turns out the documentation is not the only thing I have fundamental issues with. STAY TUNED.

> Seems pretty elegant. If you're reading this, I owe you a drink.

happy to see it come to fruition after discussions. anxiously anticipating updates

btw, i've seen it in other ssgs do the "pretty url" thing too and it's so frustrating

And I just learned that Neocities does some trickery to support clean URLs anyway.