Making This Site

I’ve wanted to have a personal website for so long now! It’s almost embarrassing that, as a programmer, I haven’t had some sort of website. All summer, I pondered between flexing my Python skills and creating a Flask website or rely on a simpler, quicker version that gets me the desired result without hassle.

Although creating a Flask website is a fantastic idea, it may not be the most time-efficient decision, and boy, it takes time. I even created (and almost finished!) a Flask+Bootstrap site with my own color palette and customized theme. It wasn’t until I almost reached the final stages (ironically, that meant setting up the blog’s database and CSS) that it hit me. Worst of all is that I already had this website up! It just wasn’t being used to its fullest potential.

A non-comprehensive list of reasons why I ended up choosing GitHub Pages:

• Free hosting service
• Free domain! your_account_name.github.io
• CI/CD using Built-In Github Actions marketplace plugins
• Option to use markdown, HTML, or mix them both in a .md file!
• Overall quick code-to-deploy turnaround

  Inspiration and acknowledgments

• Theme: Minimalist, Etch
• Cool icons from font-awesome