Getting Started

What even is this website?

Posted by Nathan Beck on August 03, 2023 · 10:50 PM

Welcome!

By the time you are reading this, it should be your birthday. If you're reading this before your birthday, I obviously screwed up. If you're reading this after your birthday, you're so cute.

When I was on call with you and I told you I knew what I wanted to do as part as your birthday gift, my original plan was to code a website from scratch, with a bunch of fancy animations. However, I don't know how to make fancy React animations, and I think I was going to have to put in 3 months of time to learn that I did not have.

This led me to discover the static page generating Jekyll, which is what I used (plus some theme I stole online) to build this website. I apologize for not being able to create an entire blog based website from scratch, but the content is more important than my abilities to work fast.

So what is on this website?

As probably spoiled by the posts you saw below this post, this website is a month-long journal dedicated each day to something about you I love. Superficial or really deep, there is a lot to love about you, and I have a lot to say regarding it. There's not much else left to say here, but just know that this website will stay up continuously throughout college, so it's not going anywhere, just like me.

Anyways, go read!