Blog

This started as a remodel of my old site, which I really disliked. I tried using GitHub Pages for the old site, and it was a disaster. At the time, I thought it sounded "cool," and since it was GitHub, I assumed I could reference my GitHub content. Crazy, huh? ...No. Not how that works.

Just knowing it existed and that people might see it as a reflection of my HTML, CSS, and web design skills bothered me. It had to go. Sooner rather than later.

Turns out, the Jekyll framework is interesting but unwieldy, unable to reuse GitHub content, incredibly cumbersome, and time-consuming to maintain.

Enter this Django website hosted on AWS Elastic Beanstalk, version-controlled. All data is either in the RDS Database or pulled dynamically from the web. No more updates, easy maintenance, cloud-hosted. Perfect.

With the exception of the Bootstrap framework and its icons, everything is my own work. A lot has changed since IE5 and Netscape Navigator! (Not a joke—that's the last time I did this.)