Hello, world — setting up this log

PRJ-001 · LOG-01 · 2026-06-12 · project: This site · status: done · tags: meta

This is a log of things I build — electronics, 3D printing, and whatever else ends up on the workbench. Projects tend to generate a lot of photos and half-remembered lessons; this is where those go so future-me can find them.

How this site works

The whole site is plain static HTML — no framework, no build step. Every post is a single file, committed to git and served as-is from GitHub Pages. A tiny prefetch script warms up pages when you hover over a link, which is the entire performance strategy. There's an RSS feed, maintained by hand, like nature intended.

What posts look like

Each entry gets a reference designator (this one is PRJ-001), a date, and a status. Figures number themselves:

Schematic of a battery, resistor, and LED in series — Every log needs a blinking LED. Here is the static-site equivalent.

Parts lists render as datasheet-style tables:

Part	Qty	Notes
HTML file	1	per post, written by hand
CSS file	1	shared, graph paper included
JavaScript	24 lines	hover prefetch only

And code blocks look like this:

$ git add posts/2026-06-12-hello-world.html
$ git commit -m "PRJ-001: hello world"
$ git push   # that's the whole deploy pipeline

What's next

Actual projects. There's a backlog of printer mods and a few PCBs in various states of disassembly that deserve proper write-ups.