I completly automated many parts of this website! For example, all the music and album under UTAU!

I can create folders, global album information, song files with lyrics in them ... etc.

I can also now write these blogposts in Markdown and add image lightboxes using a shortcode, instead of editing everything by hand, which is how it used to work on my old site, that used Zonelets.

This is certainly an improvment, but figuring all these automations took quite the time! For the blog posts, I'm very glad I made this change, because editing so much HTML by hand got tiring. On the other hand, doing it for the Albums maybe wasnt the best use of my time, as I cannot make songs and albums that fast, and editing these by hands would probably be quicker overall. Oh well, I learnt something! The voicebanks are also embedded with a for-loop, which seems a bit overkill, seeing there is only two of them now 😂

For those interested, this site now works using Tailwind CSS (which I like very much! Instead of creating classes before hand, I can quickly edit css properties, like margins on the fly for any part of the site! There are a lot of useful shortcodes!) and using 11ty. 11ty is what gives this site its automation! At first, I was a bit doubtful of it, as many elements apparently stem from existing templating languages (like Nunjucks), which I am not much familiar with, but after figuring out the toughest parts, it is pretty neat.