Notes, projects and the occasional moonshot. Zola 2026-10-24T00:00:00+00:00 https://moonman.ch/atom.xml 2026-10-24T00:00:00+00:00 2026-10-24T00:00:00+00:00 Unknown https://moonman.ch/blog/hello-moon/ <p>Every personal site starts with a post about the personal site. This is that post.</p> <h2 id="why-bother">Why bother</h2> <p>Social feeds are fast, loud and forgetful. A personal site is the opposite: slow, quiet, and still there next year. I want one place where notes, half-finished ideas and finished projects can pile up at their own pace.</p> <h2 id="how-it-s-built">How it's built</h2> <ul> <li><a rel="external" href="https://www.getzola.org">Zola</a>, a single-binary static site generator.</li> <li>The <a rel="external" href="https://github.com/johnnybravo-xyz/zola-quiet">zola-quiet</a> theme: try the two buttons in the top-right corner to switch between the typographic and terminal skins, and between light and dark.</li> <li>No trackers, no cookies, no JavaScript frameworks.</li> </ul> <h2 id="the-webring">The webring</h2> <p>At the bottom of every page you'll find the <a rel="external" href="https://polyring.ch">Polyring</a> banner. Webrings were how people found each other's sites in the 90s: each member links to the previous and next one, and together they form a loop. Hit <strong>Next</strong> and go meet the neighbours.</p>