Joy oh joy; a Yak was shaved, a site was published!
Hello friend!
Thank you for signing up for my "occasional newsletter" many moons ago!
Counting you, fourteen people signed up since evalapply.org first went live, late 2021. That figure is about 1,300% greater than my self-test email address, which I fully expected to still be hanging about all by itself.
A person signs up for a letter expecting one, sooner than later. I'm sorry I didn't write sooner, particularly because newsletter signups were one of the few pleasant surprises in what has been a very long dark tea time of the soul.
So, first, a wish for you...
I'm sure oceans of water have barraged underneath the bridge of your life, long after you forgot that you ever signed up for this newsletter. Same here. In fact, my particular bridge was lofted and sent careening about the crashing waves, with yours truly clutching on for dear life. Bridges don't make very good surfboards, you know. Especially when one doesn't know how to surf in the first place.
I'm sure you too have had your own white-knuckled eye-watering hair-decimating gut-wrenching moments over those past many moons. Please accept my heartfelt wishes for goodness to find its way back to you. And if you are still going through a lot, please know it is possible to emerge better for the wear. At the very least, I hope this email returns a modicum of the joy that your signup gave me. Thank you again for that.
And now, the "occasion" in the "occasional"!
... drum roll ...
Yet another static site maker lives!
'tis shite; the "little hotreloadin' static site maker from shell".
Yes, it is literally shite, but it is mine and I like it :D.
Oh, and it now makes evalapply.org! Hence this newsletter!
The README explains shite's design and workings... in words and in animated GIFs too.
If you like my Yak, feel free to clone it. It's mostly harmless.
Sidelight on Yak Shaving:
You see, there comes a time in every self-respecting Yak-shaving programmer's life when one is driven to render large-scale follicle trimmage unto a sizeable Yak. In my case, 'twas and 'tis the deceptively diminutive but in fact mighty Site-Maker-Yak that renders World Wide Web Sites publishable unto the Internet.
And I must say that, in dark tea times of the soul---especially in those times ---engaging oneself in the glorious enterprise of Yak-shaving is at least as therapeutic for the trimmer as it must be to the trimmee.
It should surprise nobody that zero blog posts were written in that period, because all my free moments---which were few and far between---were devoted to the soul nourishing barbering of that glorious animal.
This here email breaks the textual drought. For I have deemed my Yak reasonably shaved (for now, at least :p :)). For I have managed to republish evalapply.org with it.
It further won't surprise anybody if the next post is about the making of shite. It will be the second in this series.
I realised it will be more than the two-part affair I imagined originally ("It's just a static site. How hard could it be?"). Well, I got into the weeds pretty quick all right. And the Yak did a scope gallop, not a scope creep. So I'm going to doff my hat to its mightiness, and number the posts accordingly... 2/2, 3/2, 4/2 (200% better!).
What a ride, though... I highly recommend adopting a pet Yak :)
Thanks once again for your readership. Happy rest of Thursday, then Friyay, and then woot ... the weekend ... woot wooooot! I mean, something like that... whatever hip adieus hip people incant.
May The Source be with us.
--- Adi (weblog at evalapply.org)