Just a website in raw HTML & CSS

A few years ago I was mildly motivated to start writing online. Ultimately I did very little writing, I did, however, pour countless hours into researching the best CMS, the best headless CMS, the best static site generator etc etc. I eventually settled on using some free theme in Astro build. I dicked around for weeks with minor technical concerns and "design". I put the thing online eventually and then did nothing. Why? Because I hated it. I hated all the fucking about with Javascript and builds and keeping modules updated bla bla. Every Astro update would always break something in the template I had chosen. I just wanted to write some nonsense that very few people would ever read. Why is that so hard? Because I made it hard.

I made it hard by massively over-engineering a problem that was solved over 30 years ago. Your words wrapped in plain HTML is the simplest way to put thoughts online. That is as true in 2025 as it was in 1993.

So this latest attempt is just HTML and some CSS dragged and dropped onto a free Cloudflare Pages app. Nothing else. You don't need a CMS. Find and replace in any decent text editor can update thousands of files for you in seconds if need be. You don't even need a localhost server to run it. Just open the damn file in your browser and it will work the way the lord intended.

Make your own website, own your own content, have zero dependencies.