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Look mom I have a blog now

On 19 June, 2024 I tweeted:

I swear to you all that by the end of today, I'll have a blog. I will not be waylaid by styling, or building Hakyll in a Nix environment on Apple Silicon, or writing my own static site generator. I will use Adobe Dreamweaver if I have to. Cyberbully me if I don't follow through

This website represents my follow-through. If you have complaints about the layout, typography, accessibility, bundle size, etc. please keep in mind that the alternative was Adobe Dreamweaver hosted by GoDaddy.

🔗 Why are you like this?

I have wanted a blog for so long. For years I’ve scattered my writings across the Web in completely inscrutable locations, wallowing in envy as my friends with the good blogs expressed themselves with rich technical content, beautiful styling, and readable URLs.
So why haven’t I made a blog? Because for someone like me, standing up a blog is one of the most ontologically-fraught tasks of the modern era:
And that is why I haven’t made a blog until today.

🔗 What did you end up using?

To get this blog up in one day (including writing all of the initial content), I have imposed the following rules to prevent yak-shaving:

🔗 What’s next?

There are a lot of things I’d like to tweak about this blog, ranging from the design (typography, spacing, colors) to the build structure to adding support for more block types to rewriting everything in Rust. But since my overarching goal is simply to write more, even if it’s absolute brain slop, I’ll probably establish some inane rule like “1 post = 1 cosmetic improvement” to goad myself into compliance.

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