This website

Intro

So I decided to make a website. Well another one. I guess it can't hurt?
I guessed wrong.

If you're curious, you can check out shit code here Just don't ask about the commit names. Don't...

The idea

I wanted to make a website that would be able to display my projects as well as have a blog and a few other random stuff. Inspired by my friend's website, I thought I'd write the whole thing in markdown and use a static site generator to convert it to html. HTML would've been easier.
Very quickly I realised each section would require a custom "compiler". Quotation marks because it's not really being compiled but rather converted from markdown to html. Read on for a "brief" explanation of each.

The blog

This was fairly ~easy~ simple. I just needed to make a page that would display all the posts in a list and a page for each post. I just iterate though a folder of (folders of) markdown files and convert them to html, with a predefined html template and jinja2.

The projects

This was the most complicated part. (So far...) I wanted to be able to display the projects in a list and have a page for each project. I also wanted to be able to have a description.
Each project gets a folder in the projects folder. The folder contains a yaml file with all the details needed to generate the page and a markdown file with the description. They are formatted as follows:
yaml title: "Project title" subtitle: "Project subtitle" cover: "cover.jpg" preview type: "image", "embed" or "video" preview: "preview.jpg", "preview.mp4" or "preview.html" I then run though all folders in the projects folder and generate a page for each one. The page is generated using a jinja2 template and the yaml file.

Next steps

This website is stil under construction, and in very early stages. As the website