About

There’s this old English-language saying that I like, “It’s raining cats and dogs outside!”

Other things I like are cats (none of my own, but I think they’re great), and when the weather outside decides to do things (mostly heavy rain, but I enjoy everything that isn’t cloudless sunlight). I thought of the name raining cats for a website name while discussing the project with my friend who has been helping me with this and other tech questions for a long time, and I immediately knew that that was it.

I started this website project because said friend of mine, Red, has his own website that he created with MediaWiki and I thought it was pretty cool. I could have gone with some commercialized easy website-maker or neocities, but I liked the idea of the human-made open internet when I first heard about it, about people who made and ran their own websites by themselves and shared cool, human-made things. So, my “Remind me how to update with the terminal again?” ass had to figure out how to make a whole dang website. That’s a pretty big ask for a total newbie, but I’m pretty stubborn.

Red directed me to the Practical Hugo tutorial made by Harry Cresswell, and in a myriad world of technical jargon and github pages that I didn’t even know how to read, it’s felt like being in an elementary school computer class again - in a good way. So far, I’ve built my website with just the information from the first season of that tutorial which, even though it only aims to cover the beginning basics, tought me enough to get something off the ground.

And now I’m just going to keep working on it, whenever I have the time and desire to add new pages, and whenever the Practical Hugo tutorial gets a new season of content. I hope you’ll follow along with this journey, perhaps try out some good recipes from my very first content pages, and maybe even get inspired to make a website of your own.