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| Hello, Friend | So I've decided to have a blog | hello-friend | 2025-04-07 14:30:00+0200 |
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Introduction
This is -- technically -- not my first time hosting a blog, but it is the first time this decade.
First time I've tried hosting a blog was in 2009, the year I got my domain. The domain came with an introductory offer of free web-hosting for a year. So I figured out just enough MySql and FTP to yeet a WordPress installation on there, and make it run. As I remember it, I got as far as installing a custom theme I really liked, and writing at most three posts, all of them in the first month. Then the blog just stayed up until my hosting expired, without any further updates.
Second time I tried a blog was a bit later, after I got into self-hosting. The internet archive says it's 2018 [1], so it must be true. That time I never ended up actually posting anything, since I was mainly just interested in deploying the site.
Which brings me to the present, and the third time I'm trying to set up a blog. This time, the marginal cost of me setting a blog is insignificant, since I'm already self-hosting plenty of services for my own use. This does not mean that I'm going to be more active than before, but the blog will probably stay up for more than a few months.
Why a blog?
- Accountability for projects, whatever they might be
- Sense of finality for projects
- Reference older stuff
- It's about the journey, not the destination
- Random stuff that's longer form than a mastodon post
Yes, but why a blog?
A blog feels right for grouping, filtering, organization, content size limit, etc...
How a blog
Jekyll, Hugo, Ghost, and others.
Different concepts (CMS vs static websites)
Different static website generators
Jekyll
Hugo
Infrastructure
Self hosting
Git repository and CI
Rules... Nay, guidelines
- I don't do projects to write a blog post about them, I write a blog post to document a project
- No promise of future posts, that NEVER works out (I'll explain why that's the case in a future post)
What to expect, and how often can be expected
No expectations whatsoever about frequency and/or quality of anything contained wihin this here page.