Page last updated 20260506 DTE.
Welcome to Jon Gedge dot com!
As of this writing this website is very much still under the initial construction phase. So there are some lean areas to this site. But with that said there are over 200 active pages and most of those are filled with some sort of content.
The cornerstone section of this site is under the "GM Notes" section and in the "Star Wars RPG" subsection. I ran an FFG Star Wars campaign for three years cataloguing my Session Logs and GM Notes so that GM’s can review what efforts I took to prepare for my weekly Star Wars game.
This project is completed in whole and features a navigation matrix where one can navigate to any adjacent page.
I’ve stumbled on a project and I’ve added that to this site. Under the Articles tab are two "Articles" relating to Government Corruption in Washington DC. They are the top two links and will remain there for quite some time.
The first article is a list of identified House Representatives who have been proven to be morally corrupt and no longer serve the interests of their constituents. As each faces Primary Elections every two years, it should (theoretically) be easier to get these crooks out of elected office.
The second article is similar to the first, but lists similarily identified members of the US Senate. As the Senators only face election every six years, it may take considerably longer to oust these villains.
There is one obvious “broken” link on the website and that’s the html test link. While designing this website I spent a lot of time and code testing the html & css and that page held a repository of code results. Originally, I was planning on hosting that page to the public just so people could see examples of what raw html and css can do. But I’ve been convinced not to do that, so that link will be replaced. Just not soon.
One thing you will notice on this site are eight digit number sequences followed by the letters DTE. In fact you probably noticed that at the top of this very page. These are military date entries. The first four digits are the year, the next two are the month and the last two digits are the day. So another way of reading the number sequence at the top of this page would be August 25th, 2023.
This website uses the Cobalt static-site generator and we converted to that after attempting to use WordPress. While it was possible to use WordPress at first, it was a painful experience, especially for someone familiar with html. It became impossible to host this site using WordPress once we posted our 200th web page and had to abandon WordPress. WordPress began breaking links and pages at random!
While there was a bit of a start up development cost (labor only) once we coded out the look and feel of JonGedge dot com, the time and effort to transfer the data from the WordPress files and other source documents was much easier and much faster under Cobalt.
And one of the biggest benefits of Cobalt, is that it allows you to define repeating elements for the site in one element. So the same benefits sold by WordPress, but without the code bloat and on a much more stable platform. The pages that I’m creating are done with a text editor (emacs, in my case) instead of trying to navigate the user interface for WordPress.
Adding content in Cobalt is substantially easier because Cobalt allows you to use raw html for basic formatting or for simpler pages you can use the Markdown standard. I’m using both as needed. All of the Star Wars GM notes pages are formatted using html due to the use of special characters and any page with an image on it is also coded with html due to the greater image definition available with html. But the text heavy pages (including this one) were published from Markdown documents.
If you’re interested in learning about the Cobalt static-site generator, follow the links in this paragraph to their website. The host there even has a git repository including all of the source code for their Cobalt static-site generator website. I did use these resources to learn how to program my site as there are a lot of good examples on how to use cobalt in a variety of ways on even their small six page site.
In the meantime, I’ll keep working on content and hopefully sooner than later, you’ll be able to visit a much better website with useful content. I hope you find something of use as I continue to finish the Star Wars RPG campaign sub-section!
You could check out the handful of RPG Articles that I’ve posted so far. They are intended for new Game Masters as they wrestle with that new hobby.