Pelican deployment successful, some thoughts

I finally have this blog deployed and I have some initial thoughts about the experience of deploying it, about pelican itself, and improvements. I want to revisit them but I also as usual am under a time crunch, so here is the cliff notes version.

1. Describe later how I did this deployment. Here is the stack:
   • github.com for source
   • actions to build pelican and deploy to vercel
   • codespaces to edit the code and make new pages
   • vercel to host on the hobby tier for free
   • registrar pointed my domain to vercel nameservers
   • pelican for the cms framework, static content makes for easy hosting
2. Good things about pelican
   • Easy to deploy anywhere
   • Small footprint
   • Static content lets me use the free hosting on vercel
   • Control over most aspects of the pages
   • I actually like the lo-fi look functionality.
3. Things I don't like about Pelican as a blog
   • It's really hard to set up an index page that isn't a blog
   • It not entirely intuitive to understand to how pages/blog works
   • Getting themes is a lot of steps
   • There is not a good WYSIWG solution

Anyhow those are my initial thoughts. It's St. Patricks tomorrow and it's time get the Guinness.