About this project.
This is my personal landing page and website, originally derived from the astro-erudite template. It’s been through many iterations, and has been modified so heavily that it’s essentially a completely different project at this point.
The history of my website.
Originally beginning as ltwilson.tv, the first few versions of the website acted just like a blog and wore a design identical to the template it was based on. At the time, I simply wanted a place where I could document things without relying on a Discord server. I even wrote a blog post about the frustration with documentation being hidden in Discord.
Around a month or so later, I wanted to make the site more useful and added a /vods page. In it’s early days, these were simply a collection of markdown files that contained all the relevant metadata and provided a quick way to browse my past livestreams. With the ability to find a VOD by year and month, by game, or just browsing in chronological order.
Shortly thereafter, I migrated all of the markdown files into an integrated Airtable database and ran automations to trigger rebuilds of the site when VODs were added. Until eventually, I migrated the entire VOD archival project to it’s own project, owoTV. That way I could focus on my website being a hub for things specifically about me, and have owoTV as more of a “content focused” side of things.
My website would get a few different coats of paint after the migration, from a design consisting of various widgets, to a “wireframe” design, to the minimal design you’re looking at right now. It’s been through a lot.
Where did the blog itself go?
If I’m being completely honest, writing is hard. The easier that you can make it to actually write things, the better. And my website being a bundle of handwritten markdown files wasn’t very fun to maintain. While I wrote a few blog posts in the years that the blog existed, it was just too much work.
As such, I intend to migrate the blog to blog.rcw.lol. This is instead hosted on Leaflet - a publishing service hosted on Bluesky’s AtProtocol. The long and short of it, is that the built-in editor and easy publishing just makes it easier to maintain. As for me actually writing posts… that’s to be determined.
I want to fork this.
My website is completely open source and available under the MIT License. You can modify it to your heart’s content. HOWEVER, I will not be providing support for forks of the project, as the license suggests, this project is as-is.
That being said, if you still want to work on it - development is super easy. Follow these steps:
# Clone the repo
git clone https://gitlab.com/rcw.lol/website
# Install dependencies
cd website && bun install
# Run the test server
bun dev