#364 — Oct 13, 2026 by Evan Chen

i still think a class along these lines should be a General Institute Requirement:

• figure out how to use a shell and install zola (or other SSG)
• learn survival skills in Vim (or VSCode…)
• run zola init, put together a website skeleton, and commit to git
• run zola serve and see how you can develop a static website locally
• install a pre-commit framework for at-commit-time linting
• set up an SSH key for GitHub/GitLab etc.
• buy a domain on CloudFlare
• create a GitHub pages workflow and point the new domain at it

and the student would walk away with a barebones personal website