It's a little excessive for this site, but researching various automation options led me to glue a Hugo CLI install and build template provided by GitHub to a Neocities Github Action. It took a couple of tries to get the pieces together and GitHub's Node.js 12 warning isn't the most reassuring thing, but deploy on commit works.
While testing a few things out in React Native I needed a faux API to call and some images to load. I've added a few files to static/:
I'm not sure why it took me so long to get get something out there. I don't like most of the social media platforms, and I always got hung up on choosing a domain and getting a server set up. In the end, those were just excuses, and I'm going to start adding stuff to this site on a semi-regular basis.
Jekyll was easy enough to get started with, but I’ll have to learn how to customize it. I'm ok with the phone layout, but I want my own color scheme and some other changes. My minimalist tendencies are a little miffed that its output is in single digit kilobytes instead of tens or hundreds bytes, but everything still loads quickly. I put a couple of stubs in place to migrate from the old pages to Jekyll's urls.