small sites and little rings

so this is fun. (?)

I’m almost certain I will regret hand-rolling my own blog, but I already live in Notion so let’s go ahead and make it as easy as possible for me to publish words onto an RSS feed.

tiny making

For now, this platform is custom-made for two. See also small caps.

I’m hopeful that maintaining our own tiny, inconsequential blog platform will give us the freedom to have fun and get goofy with things! This is partially inspired by my part-time work supporting thing.tube, which is a lil homegrown livestreaming webring. It’s a bit janky but we love it regardless! (or maybe because of it.)

I might add some blog features like live graffiti (it’ll be like comments, but obnoxious) or maybe voice notes or something. Who knows! As long as I don’t need to pay for storage.

building, building!

All of the code for this website is available under

in the space type github. It is based on the

template, which I maintain as the ground floor for all space type web projects. ergo I am coasting on my own coattails!

To reflect data from public Notion pages, I’m using

and the related notion-client library. I’ve made updates to the styling to utilize our own typefaces and improve the spacing and typography a bit.

I relied heavily on the implementation of

nextjs-notion-starter-kit

Github

nextjs-notion-starter-kit

for things like retrieving database information, mapping IDs to pretty URLs, and generating static pages from dynamic content. I did not use their template directly, since I wanted to utilize the newer Next.js App Router.