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After thinking about setting up a website for years, it's finally time to do to it. Part of the reason it didn't happen sooner is that everything about front-end development felt like an ugly and poorly designed pain in the hind end. It turns out that getting a website up and keeping it running has – so far – been a straightforward matter of tedious housekeeping, not deep knowledge or cleverness.
The links below examine some of the steps in the process of managing this site and some of the lessons learned, along with observations about coding as it relates to website development. The site went live on January 24, 2020. By reading below, you can see how much (or little) progress has been made since then.
So far, I am not a fan of anything other than plain vanilla JavaScript. Partly, this is because I am still gaining fluency in the language, and want to understand the underlying engine before abstracting it. Also, there are so many frameworks, and they are in such flux, that it's hard to believe that any of them are worth committing to. Because everything here has been written by "direct coding" (without a content management system), anyone who wants more details about the implementation of what appears below can always view the page source to see something that's relatively easy to unravel.
canvas is Always Blurry!