There’s something elegant about a Jekyll site. Just writing in markdown with a simple text editor, it’s easy enough to create something minimal, something “pure.” Beginning with the intention to maintain simplicity certainly helps, but it’s not without it’s costs. It takes work to capture your world in a haiku.

That’s how this site started. With the best of intentions, be precise and be clear. Economy of words, a minimized graphics. Just the words.

This post is similar to its predecessors. It’s tapped out in vi in a simple terminal window, while in another window there’s a browser showing me how it looks. The posts themselves were pulled from a gitea repository. A Docker container holding all the Jekyll machinery sits above the directory, monitoring for changes and making them available to the browser. When I’m satisfied, I will have committed and pushed the new post back to the repository. There, gitea – running on a kubernetes node – will signal to drone ci – also running on the kubernetes node – that the new push has occurred. Drone will take over, building the site from the templates and then pushing the finished files to this site and as well as its mirror.

One perfect moment
witness the infinite skies
from atop this horse