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I want to bring my old blog back online.
There are 715 posts going back to January 2003 just sitting there, in an archived git repository. Many are not very good, and I don't want to bring them back from the graveyard, but there are some good ones too.
Especially I want to bring back the very first blog post I made, for reasons of vanity, mainly, so I can say I have been having a blog since 2003, back when blogs were just starting to take off, and you kind of had to get your hands dirty with a bit of code, or at least HTML, to start doing anything on the web.
Back then I choose to build a super simplistic static website generator out of makefiles and m4 macros, because ... I don't really know why. I guess I had just learned about m4. But it worked. I later built something in Python, and eventually landed on jekyll, and even later hugo.
And hugo is what I plan on using again. It's fast, feature complete, and I know it already.
At first I thought about doing like Idiomdrottning and mirror all content on both gemini and web, but ultimately it feels like 2 different mediums, and I plan on having fewer but longer posts on the web, almost certainly less than one per week, but post several times per week here on gemini.
And all that is subject to wildly random change and all that, this is something I do for my own sake, so it's got to suit me.
In fact I am working on a webdesign that have no JavaScript, and make absolutely no external requests, no tracking of any kind, except for the access log from the webserver. And I only look at the logs if there's something that doesn't work.
That way I am free from having to think about popularity, I will basically not even know if my writing somehow get popular. I'll probably see some emails from readers, and some SoMe backscatter, but that's about it. Well, who am I kidding. My writing will not go viral.