Category: Psychic Homily

After months of off-and-on development work jamming React components into this Hugo website, it’s clear that it will be better for the longterm to rewrite this site as a NextJS app. This approach will hopefully maintain the static website performance while being far easier to develop and use. Another consideration is a desire to use a database for show, venue, and account data. There’s only so much that can be done if all the data is living in markdown files. That’s great for blogs, but less great for a site like this.

Welcome to the shiny new Psychic Homily website ✨

This project has been in the works for the past few weeks as a labor of love to build a show list and blog to help bolster the AZ music community, and hopefully get more people to come out to shows. It’s a real challenge to keep up with all of the show announcements and new releases on Instagram alone, and for those who don’t look at Instagram every day, a lot of those show announcements will be missed. Why is Instagram so important? It seems to be the most reliable and active social media platform for keeping up with artists, for better or worse. In the past, alt-weekly’s did a great job of listing excellent shows, but in modern times, there’s so much noise and non-music events to sift through to find the truly special and unmissable show announcements. That’s a void this website will hopefully help fill, along with others I may not have encountered.