From a2f06c5cfc3292228f7893301a87875ca82208f8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alex Karle Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 23:50:34 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] post: first real content / minimal style I was inspired by the "markdown editor" apps out there, that show an off-white background with a monospaced font. Turns out you don't need too much CSS to do that ;) To kick things off, I put down a first post. It will go live on alex.karle.co, so I don't want it to reflect poorly on me... I kinda like the idea of the blog being public thoughts on tech, etc and the git history being the backstory to each. Cool, huh? Backstory --------- Browsing hackernews as I do, came across the article linked about "designed to last". I've thought a lot recently about how I really love static sites, and get super peeved when I go to a blog and it has ads, trackers, etc. I want simple, straightforward, content. The article embodied this desire, so I thought I'd put a quick site together! I've had the domain name for about a year now, and been using it for email for ~9mo. When I first got it I set up a GitHub pages account but didn't go anywhere with a post. When I set up FastMail, it was just easy to let them host my DNS records so that the email all worked right. At first I thought this meant I couldn't host a website, so, until tonight, I always thought setting up even a static site would mean mucking around with DNS. But I was wrong! They have a primitive static site hosting. It doesn't give you shell access to the host, so I can't "deploy", but it's pretty straightforward to upload the single index.html file to the webmail client and go from there. Pleasantly surprised with how it looks. Took _way_ too long to get the CSS to center the content. Here's to hoping it looks good on mobile! --- index.html | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/index.html b/index.html index ad30c6d..82bb331 100644 --- a/index.html +++ b/index.html @@ -3,8 +3,40 @@ alex.karle.co + + -

Hello World

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Hello, World

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A collection of thoughts.

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Dec. 19, 2019

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+ Toying with the thought of starting a website/blog. +

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+ Exploring my hosting options and pleasantly surprised that + Fastmail has free static site hosting! +

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+ Inspired by Jeff Huang's article on websites + Designed to Last and + a general desire for a simpler web. +

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