My experience building this site so far

June 18, 2026

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I want to talk a little bit more in depth on, as the title says, my experience in the building of this site so far. Off the bat, I myself don't really know Scheme, or Lisp in general; all I know is the bare basics of the language.

Thought process

I was introduced to skribilo about 3 weeks ago, which is a documentation framework, i.e., nothing to do with websites. Seeing that this was not built to create websites, I had the idea "how much can I get away with? "How many website-ish features can I build?"

The first thing I decided to build was a pseudo button. And yes, I call it pseudo, because there's no <button> tag. Once I managed to get it to work (it worked more like the href attribute) I concluded that everything is possible to do with this framework, using no HTML whatsoever.

Not only do I see this as a fun challange, but it also allows me to finally build my personal site, which is something I've been procrastinating on doing. Using a language I'm not familiar with, and a framework not intended for websites forces me to think outside of the box for the simplest things, that are taken for granted, which is really fun.

Everything I've accomplished in this framework

  • Buttons to redirect
    • A div with only a button
  • One main column and two side ones
  • Pseudo div's (there is <div> tag)
  • Having different styles in every page
  • Pseudo <br>, sort of, just a workaround

Things I still need to do, as of June 17th, 2026

  • Adding images within divs (not background images)
  • Update styles to work on mobile
  • Figure out what else I can get away with in this framework

Acknowledgements for inspirations

BTW hello if any one of you guys ever sees this :]

  • My boyfriend
    • Introduced me to Skribilo in the first place.
  • Sergio's website
    • Very clean and simple website. This is what initially drew me to making my own personal website someday. It only took me about 1.5 years to finally commit to it.
  • Des' digital journal
    • Absolutely fun maximalist website, so many things to do it. This is what inspired to "do whatever I want" in this project. It is also the reference for my journal.

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(made with skribilo)