It's still fun to have a website

In my 20s (started when I was 17-18) I used to have a lot of web projects. A lot for a hobbyists, that is. The classic blogs (at some point I had around three: a personal blog, a reviews blog and collaborative project that went nowhere), the also classic forums (one of them was actually rather large in the Romanian anime community) and some genuine web projects, like a manga reader, a quiz generator and other various projects.

As I got older and the trends changed, most of them have died down or went into hibernation. Currently I'm only handling a very small number of websites: my personal homepage, my blog (written in Romanian), this programming blog, where I don't post as much as I want, two old websites for nostalgic reasons (the forum and the manga reader linked above) and a small project, "Când e Liber?" (which means something like "When's the next bank holiday?"), which I did mostly to play around with some new (at that point) technologies and also to try to give it a high as possible web performance score.

These past days I found myself in the possesion of the dangerous combo of free time and energy and finally got around to doing some small "renovations" on my homepage.

Something that was on my mind for quite some time was adding the Latest blog posts there but I that point I had no way of retrieving them from Ghost using only frontend technologies. I tried to create a small Node proxy for that particular proxy but for some reason the project fell apart. Fortunately, Ghost now has a JavaScript API which can be used without much hassle.

Then I added some JSON-LD schemas, as suggested by the blog post: JSON-LD Explained for Personal Websites found on Bubbles.

Nothing much all in all but it was good ol' programming by hand, without any frameworks, libraries and least of all AI involvement. I really missed that.