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Rewriting my website in plain HTML and CSS


site in plain HTML and CSS This week, I decided to rewrite my website using plain HTML and CSS. When I originally made it, I used SvelteKit for simplicity.

Instead, it was infuriatingly difficult to figure out a way to just get a handle to a set of files in my tree at build time (let me caveat that I’m not a frontend dev and maybe I missed something obvious). I think spending too much time on Hacker News gave me the misconception that writing a website using plain HTML and CSS would be a relatively well-paved path in 2025. Also, I think this repository is now a reasonably good template for someone who wants to make a simple website with some Markdown blog posts without using a generator.

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