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title: Hello, Friend
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description: So I've decided to have a blog
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slug: hello-friend
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date: 2025-04-07 14:30:00+0200
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categories:
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- Technology
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- Projects
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tags:
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- homelab
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- self-hosting
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- docker-compose
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weight: 1
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draft: true
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---
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## Introduction
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This is -- technically -- not my first time hosting a blog, but it *is* the first
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time this decade.
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First time I've tried hosting a blog was in 2009, the year I got my domain. The
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domain came with an introductory offer of free web-hosting for a year. So I
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figured out just enough MySql and FTP to yeet a WordPress installation on
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there, and make it run. As I remember it, I got as far as installing a custom
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theme I really liked, and writing at most three posts, all of them in the first
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month. Then the blog just stayed up until my hosting expired, without any
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further updates.
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Second time I tried a blog was a bit later, after I got into self-hosting. The
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internet archive says it's 2018 [[1]], so it must be true. That time I
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never ended up actually posting anything, since I was mainly just interested in
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deploying the site.
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Which brings me to the present, and the third time I'm trying to set up a
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blog. This time, the marginal cost of me setting a blog is insignificant, since
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I'm already self-hosting plenty of services for my own use. This does not mean
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that I'm going to be more active than before, but the blog will probably stay
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up for more than a few months.
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## Why a blog?
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- Accountability for projects, whatever they might be
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- Sense of finality for projects
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- Reference older stuff
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- It's about the journey, not the destination
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- Random stuff that's longer form than a mastodon post
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### Yes, but why a **blog**?
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A blog feels right for grouping, filtering, organization, content size limit, etc...
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## How a blog
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Jekyll, Hugo, Ghost, and others.
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### Different concepts (CMS vs static websites)
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### Different static website generators
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#### Jekyll
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#### Hugo
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### Infrastructure
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#### Self hosting
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#### Git repository and CI
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## Rules... Nay, guidelines
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- I don't do projects to write a blog post about them, I write a blog post to document a project
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- No promise of future posts, that NEVER works out (I'll explain why that's the case in a future post)
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## What to expect, and how often can be expected
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No expectations whatsoever about frequency and/or quality of anything contained wihin this here page.
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[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20180810023635/http://martin.md/
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