A bit about this website.
The Workflow
I worked with Google Gemini to build a static site generator, a python script (it'll be in my github soon) that I can run locally and then publish to MAMP on my local system to confirm, and then to check in to Github, and then to the site.
The Infra
My last site was hosted with WordPress on Dreamhost, which (still) costs a few bucks every year, so I wanted to see if a low-traffic site could be effectively free. I'm using an AWS S3 Bucket with a CloudFront front end to statically provide the content. We'll see how well this works as an experiment.
The AI
Google Gemini is free for the basic service - In the near future I'm sure I'll do a long rant about the quality of AI, but if you can accept its limitations and know more or less what you are talking about and are constantly on your toes, it can be a valuable tool to speed up the process of development.
Other stuff
This site is deliberately low-tech at least to start. I just need to write a Markdown file in Visual Studio Code on my Mac and run the python script below to publish to a test instance and then to production if everything looks good.