# A Vanilla Blog

This website is blatantly, shamelessly modeled off of elly.town, but I have
signficantly less to say about programming than elly and way more experience
with front-end and publication, so I've crept around elly's site directory to
see the bare bones of blogging. It's simply an XML file that I update manually
once each post is publication-ready with these fields:

  <entry>
    <content src="https://spica.codeberg.page/b/..." type="text/plain" />
    <id>urn:uuid:...</id>
    <link href="https://spica/codeberg.page/b/..."/>
    <summary></summary>
    <updated>YYYY-MM-DD</updated>
  </entry>

On my Alpine machine, a laptop I plug into a 1080p monitor, the command to
generate a UUID is part of the util-linux package:

  $ uuid

On my Arch laptop, it's

  $ uuidgen

Each post is a .txt with strict 80-column line breaks. The appeal of this is
portability and storage. I have tried Jekyll and Hugo in the past and didn't
enjoy manging rubygems and Ruby versions for the former, and learning to make
templates was simply not worth it to me. Most of what I write starts in
markdown, so you would think these static site generators are ideal, but there
is something wonderfully brutalist about hosting raw plain text instead of
messing around with styling.

The .css of this website is my Perona color scheme, starts in sass, and is only
seen on html indexes of .txt files.