after all this time, i decided that i should finally start some sort of blog. the problem was that i needed some kind of index to contain links to all my posts
after some thinking, i realized "hey, i can just generate a html file based on the contents of the html files for my blog posts". my first thought was to do it in a shell script of some sort
but i remembered that python is a thing, and there's some html parsing lib i found out about by looking at some random python program. soon enough, i decided to install beautifulsoup and get to programming.
funnily enough, it wasn't until almost a full day later, when i was thinking of some really early bug in this script, where i had finally realized that i could've just as easily done this with js. DOM maniuplation is like javascript's bread and butter. but oh well. i was too deep into this to just give up that easily. anyways yeah i now have a script to generate an index page for my blog. it was far easier than i thought it would be. as for why i ended up doing this and not js, to be honest with you i just found it kind of funny to do this. on top of that, i've always been advocating for performance and whatnot so it's kind of a nice side effect in the way in a sense because i have a fully working blog/website with absolutely 0 JS which is an oddly nice feeling. also, i ended up adding a CI step of sorts to my website, something that just feels really funny to me given how stupid simple everything about this website is.