Lessons from Previous Attempts

I had a previous blog where I tried to write longer articles. The problem with that approach was because I tried to aggregate a lot of information, I would get busy and not have enough time to post the blog. I will try to post more frequent, smaller posts here. Occasionally posting longer blog posts when necessary. In addition, I previously hosted a blog using squarespace, which at the time seemed like a good idea, but I really lacked a lot of simplicity and flexibility. I have since decided to run on a small VPS on Hetzner.

Aiming for Simplicity

I’m also trying to make the whole process of posting a blog as simple as possible. I have a folder for posts made in markdown, and a Makefile that can be used to build html files using pandoc using a simple make. Once I’m happy with the post, I can run make deploy and that’s the whole workflow.

Needing a Space to Write

One of my motivations of restarting a blog is so that I have a space to write down my thoughts and experiences. For example, I recently wrote about my experience of migrating lobste.rs to SQLite. I didn’t have a blog at the time so I wrote it as a meta story within the lobste.rs site itself. I might have provided a follow up post with more details since the one I made had some details missing just to keep the story relatively short on the site.