So I use this booklog for two purposes: Recording my books, and learning new programming technologies. For a while now, this has been built with once-cutting edge technologies from the late teens (Angular! Bootstrap! Mongo!), and I’ve been lowkey intending to rewrite it with something a bit more modern, but kept putting it off because there weren’t any new technologies that interested me enough.

But now, there’s the new hotness: AI. And so I picked up one of the fancy new AI-first editors (Windsurf, if you’re curious) and did a rewrite using 11ty, which generates static HTML. Mostly, this won’t matter to you, but a few things you might notice:

  1. The site’s a lot faster. Instead of running a database and an application server and all that stuff, it’s just serving static files off of Cloudflare. It also supports HTTPS, so you won’t see a little warning in the URL box anymore.

  2. I’ve added some nice convenience features, like the links on the bottom of the page to previous/next entries. And I think the Author/Tag pages are a little nicer, too.

  3. Comments no longer work. Sorry! The downside of the site being static is that I can’t really do comments anymore. But also it’s 2025, and blog comments kinda aren’t a thing anymore, so I suspect we’ll all be fine. (Besides, it’s 2025, nobody’s even reading blogs anymore; I know I’m writing this mostly for myself.)

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