I’m blogging again. I don’t think geocities still exists today, and the perception of what blogging means has changed a few times over. I’m quite certain there’s little chance you’ll meet someone who knows what blog stands for, or what that meant originally.
The term blog was short for weblog. It’s a log, on the web. Not a marketing page or online diary. Back then blogging was an exclusive domain of nerds; hackers, webmasters & sysadmins. So it used to be a list of dates, short notes & links.
But the web evolves. So now here I find myself finally writing, after reading features, picking themes, test installs, digging source codes, just the prequisites to find best (no bloat, straight forward logic) but more importantly, least shitty CMS. With no disrespect to PHP programmers out there, I can’t stand Wordpress & PHP CMSes in general even though my choice back then was written in Perl. Too bad I can’t find a simple nice one written in Python & not Django. Since I decided to use Github for public repo, Jekyll was the obvious choice, static with markdown support is great. But it turns out to be such a pain (my tolerance level has been lowered drastically since 1999) to install for local offline dev with Docker. Hugo wins for now.
Okay, but why? Because:
- There are thoughts I need to offload, but not delivered in real time, in other words they need to be evaluated more carefully.
- Most social media sucks (and not really suited) for rants or longer semi essay-ish form. And while I did write some things on those platforms, I need to remind myself that it’s unfair for people following me there to have these random rambling half-pondered words shoved into their feeds.
- I found my introspection & communication skills degraded so writing exercise is needed.
- User friendly, centralized storage for my own persistent logs has always been a major pain point in my experience.
So anyway, here it goes.