Opening Up
During a recent search on Kagi (my new search engine of choice, you should try it too!), I've stumbled upon an independent software engineer's blogging website by a guy called Drew DeVault. I was quite pleasantly surprised to have found such results on the web, as such blogs tend to be rather small because they fill a small niche on the web. I guess this has never happened before, without me realized it because of the absence of the “small web” feature in other search engines like DuckDuckGo (which I have used previously).
I've quickly read through the main article I needed for the information I was searching. Then another; and another. It felt so relatable that I've just kept on reading. Most of the things he said were simply right on the same wavelength as I was.
I took his blog as an inspiration to open up my blog and simply write about whatever I am currently dealing with. Therefore, there will also be posts about other stuff I am doing, like the process of transferring the entire blog from WriteFreely to a static site generator (like Hugo, for example), which is currently already in the planning phase. The reason behind this switch is that I want to try a new system of publishing via git because of the versioning control in addition to being able to use Neovim as my editor, which I have recently customized to my liking with lots of plugins which will also probably make the work of writing blog posts easier. More on this topic in the later specific post just about the switch.
In general, this is simply supposed to be my blog; without much selection of what I post on here. And because I am planning to keep this action of blogging up, I will try to regularly release or write posts concerning basically what I've been working on since the previous post. Additionally, when I haven't actually done anything myself, but I've found a topic which really interests me, which I want to explore further or even just give my own opinion on, I will do exactly that on this blog as well.
I hope if I keep up the work of doing regular blog posts, the quality of each one must improve eventually, right? No other way to find out, than to try...