Why I made this blog in Lua

Most personal websites are either a blog that has not been updated since 2021 or a shrine to whatever framework was fashionable when they were built. I wanted something less ambitious and somehow more unnecessary.

This is a blog for the things I encounter, build, break, and occasionally decide were worth keeping. The tone is deliberate: slightly severe, a little funny, and free of the warm gradients currently afflicting the open web.

The whole thing is driven by one stdlib-only Lua script. No client-side JavaScript, no analytics quietly counting your pulse, and no dependency tree that needs its own family tree. I write a Markdown file, give it a title and a date, and let the script turn it into HTML.

Why Lua

Lua is small enough to hold in your head, which is useful when the project starts acquiring features it does not need. To produce this very page:

-- from the project root
lua5.4 build.lua
-- or, if you prefer:
luajit build.lua

That copies static/ into dist/static/ and renders every post. The output is plain files you can host anywhere, which is the entire point.

What goes here

A mix of things. Some are small notes from daily life: coffee, a gecko, a stubborn keyboard. Others are software stories: a concurrency runtime, a deploy that did nothing, the Lua script that builds this page. The point is not volume. It is that a thing, once written down, is kept.

A blog is an argument that the ordinary is worth writing down.