zyllian.github.io/site/resources/blog/so-now-i-have-a-blog.md

---
title: so now i have a blog
timestamp: 2023-06-09T22:20:00.00Z
tags: [meta, blog]
desc: I added a blog to my site. Here's a picture of some smoke.
cdn_file: 2023/06/smoke.jpeg
header_image_alt: Photo of smoke engulfing an interstate from a highway across a river.
---

So now I have a blog on my site. I don't really have any plans to post here regularly, but idk maybe that'll change in the future.

That's pretty much it for now.

<!-- That's pretty much it as far as the non-technical side of things goes.

## The Technical Side of Things

I haven't really written anything about how my site works before, so this is also going to contain some general information about the site as a whole.

`zyl.gay` is a static website built with a custom static site builder I built for it. It started by taking Markdown pages and rendering them on top of the appropriate template.

When I added the [images section](/images/) to the site I added the first abstraction on top of this: YAML files with the relevant metadata for the image (including a short but unstyled description) which then get rendered not only into pages for the individual pages, but also a paginated display for all the images _and_ a method to view images by tag.

To get blogs working I modified the image page code to be generic over provided resource types, so really the images and the blog posts are rendered the same way, just with different configurations. -->
many many changes 2023-06-09 21:55:04 -07:00			`---`
			`title: so now i have a blog`
Publish first blog post ig 2023-06-09 22:21:09 -07:00			`timestamp: 2023-06-09T22:20:00.00Z`
			`tags: [meta, blog]`
			`desc: I added a blog to my site. Here's a picture of some smoke.`
make resources configurable by the user without modifying code 2024-11-04 13:00:25 -08:00			`cdn_file: 2023/06/smoke.jpeg`
Publish first blog post ig 2023-06-09 22:21:09 -07:00			`header_image_alt: Photo of smoke engulfing an interstate from a highway across a river.`
many many changes 2023-06-09 21:55:04 -07:00			`---`

			`So now I have a blog on my site. I don't really have any plans to post here regularly, but idk maybe that'll change in the future.`

Publish first blog post ig 2023-06-09 22:21:09 -07:00			`That's pretty much it for now.`

			`<!-- That's pretty much it as far as the non-technical side of things goes.`
many many changes 2023-06-09 21:55:04 -07:00
			`## The Technical Side of Things`

			`I haven't really written anything about how my site works before, so this is also going to contain some general information about the site as a whole.`

			`zyl.gay` is a static website built with a custom static site builder I built for it. It started by taking Markdown pages and rendering them on top of the appropriate template.

			`When I added the [images section](/images/) to the site I added the first abstraction on top of this: YAML files with the relevant metadata for the image (including a short but unstyled description) which then get rendered not only into pages for the individual pages, but also a paginated display for all the images _and_ a method to view images by tag.`

Publish first blog post ig 2023-06-09 22:21:09 -07:00			`To get blogs working I modified the image page code to be generic over provided resource types, so really the images and the blog posts are rendered the same way, just with different configurations. -->`