Free Time is a Rare Commodity

It seems my attempts to regularly updating this site keep hitting obstacles. First among them is free time, I have two young children and they place a pretty serious demand on my attention. The second is my own stupid fault, in that instead of deciding to go for a standard blogging platform I decided to write my own. I'm quite proud of what I've produced, but as I write this article, it's sti;ll only partially complete.

For those interested in the nerdy details, this blog runs on a platform that takes a series of markdown files and turns them into html pages. That way, the actual content of the site is pure HTML with no server side complications. That was then modified because maintaining a directory full of markdown files seemed a bit bulky, so now the system uses a zip file containing the necessary materials to generate the website.

As I write this I have a nice WPF based UI for editing my files and it appears to generate a working website. The main plan for the future is to write a seperate UI to generate the files using .NET MAUI with the hope that this will allow me to create a mobile app, at which point I should be able to post content to this website from almost anywhere.