Instead of serving the homepage dynamically… maybe… like… don't…

[HalosGhost]

You know what's crazy? /index is entirely dynamic content; loaded as a template and populated on every page load. You know why? because it lets us have an always-up-to-date copyright notice year.

This was, initially, a proof-of-concept for working with lwan templates. Practically speaking, though, it is totally unnecessary. As I am planning on moving away from dynamic content in favor of stagit (cf. #9), even this piece is not necessary..

So, current plan:

1. remold /index to be static content
2. add a new route (preliminarily, /footer) that will return the full footer content (possibly as a lwan template; undecided)
3. add an iframe on /index for the footer content so it loads dynamically, but the page itself is static

This should accomplish a few things:

• faster load time for /index (yay, default async loading for iframes!)
• much faster template population time for the copyright notice (much shorter content)
• frees up the footer to be, functionally, a site-wide partial

[HalosGhost]

via https://github.com/HalosGhost/halosgho.st/commit/946327dda17ecd45d6d9e1132703bb384c8c0210

Okay. So I ended up going a different route:

• remove templating altogether (good for prototyping, but not needed for (this site) production)
• setup a systemd timer to replace the end-copyright year on new years day every year

This way, I don't need any dynamic content at all and I still get an updated-copyright year.