Welp, I finally took my time to look into HUGO - a static website generator. This thing is amazing!
Just out of the box it already has the capability to turn markdown files into html, with syntax highlighting included; but it can do a whole bunch more. Custom themes, custom templates, custom everything.
Hence I plan to move away from dev.to to self-hosting - first on github pages, then maybe somewhere else if I feel the need. Right now I already got a website with github pages, but it is not using hugo - I am yet to set up CI and move my posts from different places into one - so far I got the repo for that with posts cloned from dev.to.
Two main reasons to move to self hosting: first - I can do more stuff, for example I can integrate any javascript I want, such as p5.js sketches; second - I can post different content together - dev.to is kinda limited to IT-related things, so I can't post here something on how much I enjoyed some anime, or record some weird dream of mine.
One thing I would lose would be human interaction - no more comments / likes / content from other people - however, I feel like nothing of value is lost, I was using this site to express myself more than anything else.
What else to say... Nothing really. So long, and thanks for all the fish.
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