Hello 👋

Hello, welcome to my blog

As with many other technical blogs on the web, this really only exists because I wanted to build a blogging system.

I've built a new blogging system at least a half dozen times over the years. Most of these attempts never went live, and really just served as a reason for me to play with some new technology or concept.

But unlike previous attempts, I have some goals in mind this time:

1. Self host on some fun hardware.
2. Post more than just a "Hello World" post for once. I think I actually have some fun ideas to write about this time.
3. Build by hand, avoid dependencies, avoid bloat, avoid (too much) "AI" use.

Towards these goals, I've created a small bash script to build my final HTML files using a very simple templating system. I call it smol_build.sh. Code found here, and my first real blog post about it can be found here.

Additionally, if you're interested in looking at the code for this site, it's available on my GitHub. I also have Twitter/X if you want to keep tabs on me or say "hi".

If you're reading this soon after it was written then there are still a number of things I'd like to get to before the site is done. I hope to be ticking them off in the coming weeks. Things like:

• Add an RSS feed.
• Add robots.txt etc.
• Host the blog on my own hardware.
• Do something on the home page.
• Write some actual posts!
• Improve the robustness of build script.
• Automatic deployments.