blog

My personal notebook. Plain HTML + CSS, no build step, hosted free on GitHub Pages. Live at https://brandeispatrick.github.io/blog/.

How it's built

• No framework, no build. Every page is a static .html file you can open directly.
• One stylesheet (style.css) — a single readable column, system fonts, a fixed light theme.
• Pretext powers the freely-arranged hero tagline on the homepage (loaded from a CDN, progressively enhanced — the page works fine without it).

Add a post

1. Copy an existing file in posts/ to posts/your-slug.html.
2. Edit the title, date, and body.
3. Add a <article class="post-link"> entry to index.html:
   • Still writing? Put it in the "On the desk" section (the folded <details> at the bottom of the homepage — collapsed by default) with a <span class="status">Draft — …</span> tag, and update the draft count in its <summary> line.
   • Done? Put it in the main list at the top, and drop the draft tag.
4. Commit and push — GitHub Pages redeploys automatically.

Posts keep the same URL either way — publishing is just moving the entry between sections on the homepage.

Run locally

Just open index.html in a browser, or serve the folder:

python3 -m http.server
# then visit http://localhost:8000