I finally made good on my promise of doing anything to this webpage at all after 2 years of forgetting it exists.

Well, forgetting is the wrong word here, maintaining a site is just deceivingly hard, even when it is a 0 CSS pure HTML white page with like 4 things on it.

First you think, "Ohhhhh, I'm just gonna have it be like a little card!!". Then you go to "Maybe I'll have a section that has all my releases on it, I'll update it manually, it's nothing fancy, that shouldn't be hard!" and then, after you're finished - you realize - "oh god fucking damn it, I'm gonna need to update this thing oh godddddddddd" and then you drive a car into a wall and crash and die.

Speaking of white pages with like 4 things on them AND dying, let's have a memorial......

I wish I had more things to say about it than I could tell by just showing it, but there it is! I guess my input could be that it does make me really really sad that I only released one album since I've last updated the "white page", and I also still like the little spider-web logo.

Anywayyyy, goodbye 4evrrr, let's talk about this one now.

I kinda needed a website for something quickly, so I tried my hand at this one more time about 2 days ago as of writing this. I was just gonna RAWDOG HTML AGAIN, but with CSS this time and maaaaaaybe use JS for reusable bits. But I kinda had way more fun with doing JS right off the bat, so I tried writing this as a dynamic single page website for maybe 5 hours, until I started hitting 20 roadblocks with JavaScript safeguards.

I obviously get why you would have these, and as an end user I'm REALLY glad it does, but wowwww does it make writing anything not fun.

That's when I remembered about 11ty, a static site generator. A YouTuber I watch, Veronica Explains made a video on it a little while ago, so it was floating around in my head.

Basically, it's a hard pivot from what I was doing. Instead of rendering everything dynamically, it generates full pages based on templates you feed to it. For example, this post is just a markdown file using the "posts" template I made that 11ty parsed into a normal run-of-the-mill HTML page you are viewing right now.

This lets me stay away from the html+css mines any time I want to post anything AND avoid dealing with standard browser JavaScript!

I used this guide to learn the basics of 11ty. If you wanna make something similar, I recommend it.

Also, hi, this is the first blog post!

This post is mostly here as a "demo", as well as not to have my posts section be entirely blank, but I plan to post updates about stuff I'm working on here and maybe yap about stuff I find cool ocasionally.

I still need to set up an RSS feed, so that you don't have to stalk this page freakishly to see if I posted anything new. I just didn't really have the time to mess with that yet. Hopefully I don't forget about it for 2 years like I did before, haha!

As for the website itself, I plan on using it as a "froko center" of sorts. I always found it really annoying updating social media profiles when I need to. I just always miss one account, and then everything that one says is completely irrelevant and the links are broken and I find out about it in a year and it's a whole thing.

With this, I hope I can just put "froko.neocities.org" on my profiles, have anything important here, and just remember to update it from time to time.

I don't know how to end this... But if you read all the way thruuu.. ihave an easter egg — 4u!!!!!

Since the start of the year, I've been working on and off on a video about a certain popular audio suite... What about it specifically? You can probably guess.

Thanks for reading!