simply because a) it's fun b) zola is annoying c) NIH.
a part of me wants to make it dynamic (i.e. it's a literal web server), but is this truly necessary? being dynamic potentially allows fun stuff, like having ?at=hash to view an old version of a post. but... I'm not sure if I'll ever actually implement anything like this (besides I'm not sure ?at is actually fully possible, because I will inevitably change something in the engine so that the old version can't be rendered...).
I also wanted to make slugs similar to what cohost has -- some short unique id (it can be really short, given than I don't post much lol) and then anything, just for making links readable. This is also something that's only really possible with a dynamic blog (and is thus a bit scary! -- what happens if I want to switch to being static later? do I care about links being alive in the future?).
but then like... using github pages is somewhat nice. I don't like them much, but it's nice that I don't need any hosting and me breaking my vps won't make the blog inaccessible. so maybe I should stick to being static?.. could the traffic ever overwhelm my teeny-tiny vps?
aaaaaaaa so many questions without clear answers.
being dynamic sounds fun, but is probably more work for little to no benefit. I'm conflicted...
do y'all have any thoughts?