Just a folder with an HTML file and a deploy command.
I've been meaning to set up minosh.me for a while. Always pushed it back because it felt like a big thing. Custom design, blog support, all that.
Turned out it was a one-day job.
The stack is pretty simple.
Eleventy as the static site generator, markdown files for posts, and Wrangler to push everything to Cloudflare Pages. Free hosting, custom domain, zero recurring costs for the site itself.
The part that surprised me: writing posts is just creating a .md file in a folder. Add a title, a date, and write. Eleventy builds it into a proper page. No editor, no dashboard, no login.
I'm using it to write short posts about things I'm noticing, not TalkBitz stuff, just personal takes.
The kind of writing that doesn't fit a business blog.
Not the fanciest setup. But it's mine, it's fast, and I actually understand every part of it. That last bit matters more than I expected.
If you're thinking about a personal site and keep putting it off because it feels complicated, it probably isn't.
At least from what I found.
And if you want to build something similar, here's the prompt I'd give Claude Agent in Zed:
Build me a minimal personal site with Eleventy. I want a homepage with a short bio and a projects section, a posts folder where I write in markdown, and deploy it to Cloudflare Pages with Wrangler. Keep the design clean, white background, system font, no frameworks.
That's genuinely all you need to get started.