What #
This is the personal website of me, Spencer Dub.
Inspired by Zach Mandeville’s Tarot versioning, Key and Card is currently Version 0, “The Fool”. This version is optimistic and eager, full of grand visions and excited to try something new.
Why #
For over a decade, I hosted my own WordPress site. I got fairly good at managing it through the admin panel, and I even made myself some child themes to customize its appearance, but I never truly felt like I understood how it worked. Beneath the hood, it was PHP and MySQL, which for me, were technologies sufficiently advanced as to be sorcery.
I want to know and understand the tools I use, and I want those tools to be simpler, with fewer interdependencies. WordPress requires a PHP process and a database; a static site only requires a server.
So I scrapped my blog of ten-plus years to make something smaller, weirder, and lighter. Then I spent three years spinning my wheels, trying to code the Perfect Website™ from scratch before realizing I was letting the perfect be the enemy of the good and deciding to use a pre-built theme (presently Blowfish). Here we are now.
Why “Key and Card”? #
The name comes from some personal mythmaking.
The Key is an iron symbol of hard answers. The Key transforms barriers into portals by correctly solving the specific problem at hand. The Key is objective.
The Card is both a divinatory tool and a game piece. As part of a deck, it represents probability, fate, and the messy human brains that conflate the two.There is fun—and magic—in the unpredictable.
How #
This website is built using Hugo. It is self-hosted.
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