Rewrite the site, again. From Hexo to custom SSG

2026-03-11

I decided to drop Hexo for this website / blog thing. It worked very well and is very useful overall, but I wanted to have a less complex architecture and workflow. And also ditch all javascript and external dependencies (my Hexo theme use some Google Fonts).

So here I am, rewriting the complete architecture, to something really simple: html / css, generated from Markdown files with a custom python script. I try to keep the same url for the rss and atom feed (atom looks okay, rss is a work in progress), but don't really care about post urls. The blog posts are still there, so it's good enough in my book. The only link I share was on LinkedIn, so my reaction to a dead link here is something like "Oh no! Anyway.".

Also, the old "about" page was half-written with AI, some posts has been corrected by AI, and I want to fix at least the first point. For the second, I just added a disclaimer.

I'm not sure I will post more here than before, but we never know.

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