This Website (buu342.me)
Released: November 10, 2021
Tags: Bad Life Decisions, Web Development, C++, Static Site Generator, wxWidgets, HTML, CSS, JavaScript
I bought this domain on a whim a very long time ago, but in 2024, after finishing my dissertation, I decided to make this website presentable. Because I am not a normal person, I chose to write my own static site generator as opposed to using one that already exists. The result is this website which you are using your eyeballs to gaze upon.
I wrote the SSG in C++ using wxWidgets. It stores the website's structure in JSON and markdown files, which the tool then parses and builds the pages of any entry which has changed. To generate the pages, it uses a bunch of template HTML files and replaces some key words in them with the different contents generated by the markdown parser.
A blog post that covers the entire development process of this website is available below.
