Once upon a time I had a very dynamic site running here. Apache at first, Nginx later. PHP at some times. But then I noticed that whatever I was doing, I was doing the same shit at work too. And I got bored. Why do anything for myself if I can get paid to do it for others.
What this is
A personal site. I’m using Hugo so it will be static and we all know… static is hard to hack.
What this isn’t
- A business
- A brand
- A community
- Your mother
The technical bit
The site is 100% static HTML. No database, no login, no sessions, no PHP, no Node.js, no server-side anything. The files sitting on the server are exactly the files your browser downloads. This keeps it:
- Simple — nothing to maintain, update, or patch
- Fast — a CDN can cache every page
- Secure — there is no attack surface; you cannot SQL-inject a flat file
Content is written in Markdown, then Hugo compiles everything into HTML on my local machine, and I rsync the result to the server.
In the next few weeks I will try to let AI build my website like I’m the Kimbe dot com of the, what is it, 2026th!
Basically it’s going to be crap and will only update if I remember I was doing something.
As usual:
Deal with it.