At some point, we should stop thinking about engine/theme. This is a "normal" website.

This kind of blog/website can easily be done by writing every blog post in a separate html file then doing a quick script to put together the index.

Your script could also add use a very simple template for each page, template in which you can use your own CSS. (here, it is an external file containing 142 lines of straightforward CSS).

Yes, I did it for my own blog. But I also added the fact that I would like to write my posts in the Gemtext format. So I wrote a parser to convert it to HTML.

And, in the end, it proved to be quicker and easier to do it all by hand myself than to learn any templating engine or any static website generator. Also, I never understood CSS (I’m really really bad at that) but managed to do what I want in exactly 42 lines of CSS. And, guess what, lot of people are asking me where I found my "theme".

I think that everybody working with the Web should be required to do a pure HTML/simple CSS website at least once to realize how easy and straightforward it is to NOT use any engine/theme.

And how much time and energy we are wasting on layers above layers above layers.

> [...] a quick script to put together the index.

> Your script could also add use a very simple template for each page, template in which you can use your own CSS. (here, it is an external file containing 142 lines of straightforward CSS).

> Yes, I did it for my own blog [...]

So, you created a custom engine, which is what parent was asking about.

It looks like it's ikiwiki (unless I'm mis-reading it -- I had to parse it a couple times). Their first post[1] comments on it

[1] https://blog.liw.fi/posts/welcome/

The way I read it, he moved on from ikiwiki to his "newest approach", which looks to me like regular hand-written html+css. And why not, it's just a bunch of words, no frameworks necessary. This guy has software running on Mars so making a good old '90s style website by hand seems appropriate.

That's what I interpreted at least one of the times, but if you follow the "new approach" (it's a link) it takes you to a blog that is old (according to dates) and does not match the current styling

I could definitely be wrong, as it's still a bit ambiguous to me