How the Blog Is Built
I wanted a space where I could draft ideas fast and publish them without negotiating with a heavyweight CMS or JavaScript framework. The solution is this tiny Flask app: it reads Markdown files from posts/, extracts front-matter metadata with YAML, and renders everything with Jinja templates.
There’s no database, no admin console, and no notion of components that need compiling. Writing is nothing more than dropping a .md file into the repository. The Python code walks the directory, sorts the posts by date, and injects each file into a simple layout. The retro styling and new animated background come from hand-written CSS and a WebGL snippet that only runs on the homepage.
Keeping it lightweight means I can swap laptops, edit in any text editor, and still publish by pushing Markdown. I get syntax-highlighted code blocks through Markdown extensions, Prism for inline snippets, and zero build step beyond flask run. This workflow keeps the focus on the words, not on wrestling with a “real” block framework just to ship a post.