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02-01-2022 (b0)
I've been trying to start a blog for a while but I kept hitting annoying roadblocks that prevented me from fully launching. Wordpress was the first thing I came across, but I immediately binned it because Wordpress blogs are kitchy (derogatory) and I simply don't like them. (No I will not be clarifying)
After immediately binning Wordpress the next thing I looked at was Jekyll which allows you to host a static site using a GitHub Repo. I actually spent a lot of time writing code for this failed blog. I wrote a tool that would automatically update the requisite YAML front matter: it basically generated the date created, date modified, and title of the post from file metadata. I also wrote a script to generate new blog posts from the command line. I wrote some scripts that would allow me to update the YAML and then auto push files to the Git repo. It was all building up to a pretty slick workflow and I was almost ready to launch the blog. Turns out I hated all the themes. Ended up getting caught up in trying and failing to teach myself how to make my own: which was a nightmare since I have no experience with webdesign or with Ruby ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I also spent a bunch of time futzing around with Vercel and Netify which was way more annoying then it should have been, but ultimately decently straightforward.
I dunno Jekyll never really clicked with me despite all the work I put into it.
I spent some time looking at write.as, however (1) that just stopped being free and (2) apparently it's buggy as hell.
Briefly considered Blot.im but it's basically Jekyll but Dropbox not GitHub and especially considering my experience with Jekyll I decided to skip that.
At the same time as all of this I had started getting into using Gemini more and decided that maybe starting a Gemlog would be a better alternative to these options. Maybe at some point I'll migrate this blog to a server I'm running myself but for now I'm happy to just use something like gemlog.blue to get it up and running quickly.
Maybe I'll add more to this post later but for now that's all!
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02-13-2022 3:38AM (b0) Updates made to post. (This note was added by (b1) as replacement for a pre-existing note that did not follow current posting conventions)