Hello, world

I'm a sucker for short domain names, and after years of letting this one collect dust, I decided to finally do something. This site is my take on a small place to share project notes, rants, half-finished thoughts, and the occasional meme.

The goals

Write posts in Obsidian, where I already write everything.
Publish with git push. No CMS, no admin panel, no database to patch.
No tracking. No Google Analytics, no cookie banner, no external fonts phoning home.

The stack

Piece	What I used	Cost
Writing	Obsidian (plain Markdown)	$0
Site generator	Eleventy v3	$0
Code	Private GitHub repo	$0
Hosting + HTTPS	Cloudflare Workers (static assets)	$0
DNS	Cloudflare	$0
Domain	.pw	$15

Eleventy takes a folder of Markdown and spits out plain HTML. That's it. I pinned it to v3, because the next major version is getting rebranded and I didn't want a surprise.

Cloudflare Workers serves the static files. Cloudflare now recommends Workers over Pages for new projects, static bandwidth is free, and pushing to GitHub triggers a build automatically.

The design

Minimal vaporwave: dark purple, a striped sunset, a perspective grid, pink, cyan and mint accents. No external fonts, no JavaScript frameworks. I just dig the aesthetic.

There's also a meme gallery that builds itself from a folder. Drop a file in, push, and it shows up with the filename as the caption.

Posting workflow

Write the note in Obsidian with a date and draft property.
Claude monitors the folder in my Obsidian vault, and auto moves notes without draft: true to the repo. This makes it easy to write sporadically, in the place where I do basically all of my writing. if I forget the date, the build fails on purpose with a plain-English error instead of publishing something broken.
git add -A && git commit -m "new post" && git push

What you'll get from me

Whatever is worth more than a tweet and less than a book. Tech, home stuff, rants, things I broke and then fixed.

Ship it small, fix it later.

Socials

X @ Driftzzilla

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