I’ve started a few attempts to blog over the years. Having to pay for a site or maintain a server for my humble thoughts got a bit tiresome eventually. But this is a free, static site, so I’m giving it another go: Free, simple, Python, Jinja, Markdown, and Git - this might be sustainable. And I can tweak to my heart’s content.
I get the attractions of blogging: notes to Self that will perhaps be useful to refer back to- and perhaps that someone somewhere might one day also find useful. Obviously this assumes the notes are worth reading! Warning: probably not.
One purpose of keeping notes is the process of note-taking itself. The act of writing helps to clarify thoughts and retain them, so I’m doing this for me, not you. I’m interested to see the value in the Memex method
I imagine I’ll be making : * book reviews - especially tech book summaries * technical writing: when rtfm doesn’t work. Especially Python * recipes. Especially bread. * Miscellaneous. Especially Dinosaurs.
Might turn out to just be me commenting on hacker news posts.
About the Blog technology
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This blog is built using the Pelican static site generator. I do like a static site: low maintenance, low cost, and handle high traffic - nice!
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The blogging platform is Pelican - simple is clever. Thanks pelican!
- The theme is called ‘Attila’ : looks nice to me - thanks!
- The blog is hosted on Github Pages. Free is nice, thanks github!
- It’s deployed using a Github Actions: gh-pages-pelican-action in particular - thanks!