New Site, Same Great Content
Gotta love that new site smell. For the longest time I was hosting my site on a Wordpress instance on AWS. It worked, but not the way I wanted it to. I spent way too much time focusing on keeping the servers running and everything updated and way too little time focusing on the content.
So earlier this year I started looking for a better way. I wanted something simple that I could express as code. Something that would be fast, efficient, and less costly while not sacrificing the way I wanted to write content.
After a long time and a lot of trial and error I have a new content workflow that is an utter pleasure to work with and leaves me focused on building the decks I want to share instead of updating EC2 instances. I'm now writing entirely in plain text markdown and using the 11ty static site generator to generate a simple yet functional layout for my content. I'm then using simple github integrations to automatically deploy the site to netlify for hosting every time I push.
The whole process took a ton of work to get up and running, but every moment was worth it. Once you start browsing around the site you'll notice a new improved layout, easy to navigate interface, and much improved deck layouts.
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Deck 12 Plains 12 Island 12 Swamp 12 Mountain 12 Forest
All automated for me through a few simple pieces of markup. I write plain text, I get a beautiful blog.
The site is also faster, loads almost instantly, and is available via my github.