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It's A Blog
You all said I needed to make a blog so I made a blog.
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The nerve. The fucking AUDACITY
I asked the beasts of the Fediverse “Hey Fedifolk, should I do a blog,” and they all said “Yes Dan of course you should.” Granted, some of those people were saying that so that my posts would go outta their timeline and onto a different website where they didn't have to see it, but even so, democracy won, here's a blog, I hope you're satisfied.
As an apparently blogger, in the year 2025 when we have social media and Fedi and all these other easy shared ways of shouting into a bag it seems honestly arrogant to make a blog.
A whole website? Just for you? Don't want to share a domain name with anyone? Special boy? Your opinions are clearly very important?
Well, here we are. I try to bring an energy of humility to my Fedi posts, but honestly that's just because I'm typing on my phone. Not gonna blog on my phone, of course not, that's a desktop activity like booking plane tickets, my precious opinions are desktop computer levels of significant. I've got a split ortholinear Dvorak keyboard here, it's got loud clicky switches so you're gonna get loud clicky posts, torrents of shit pouring out the ends of my sleeves and through a wire over to a dedicated server in Germany because apparently I'm just that pleased with myself.
Welcome to my bloghole. I promise I'll… try to resist the urge to make it like a lot of other fortysomethingwhitecomputerguy blogs I've been looking at lately, because they all follow a template that's very easy to fall into, where you fiddle with a blog more than you post in it:
Lifecycle of a blog, illustrated as posts
- Welcome to my blog
- Why I think I need to blog
- A new look for my blog
- Why 2012 is finally the year of the Linux Desktop
- I changed blogging systems
- More posts coming soon
- Adventures in kayaking
- Changing blog systems again: Why I made a custom blog engine
- Now I can post from mobile
- Happy 2018
- This blog is now hosted on a Raspberry Pi!
- 3D printing parts to make my 3D printer work better
- Long time, no see!
- Making a table saw fence on my new table saw
- My new year's resolution: blog more!
- Adventures in Home Assistant
- About my divorce (it was because of Home Assistant)
- A fresh start for my blog: my own custom blog engine Version IV
- Integrating my blog with Home Assistant
This is a big part of why this is a blog made out of a wiki (so it can go SIDEWAYS as well as forwards) and also why you're not reading this until waaaaay after I write it and write some other stuff as well that isn't about FortySomethingWhiteTechGuy shit.
'cause I've gotta see if I actually want to make a blog/website, right? Not just install one and make it pretty? Actually put things in it? Things that might be worth putting in it? And that's the sort of question that I can only answer after I've done it or failed to do it, y'know.
In the meantime this is a secret blog just for me, heeheee
It's a wiki and a blog
Tempted as I was to hand-code the whole damn thing like I did with GameDad.Club, I figured if I'm gonna actually blog some shit it'd be nice to not have to update the RSS bollocks manually, so I'm using DokuWiki. It's all text files, like my folder full of text files called notes/house/plumbing/fuckingwaterheater.txt, DokuWiki eats text files and spits out a website and if you click a plugin it spits out a blog made of blog/firstpostlol.txt and that way of doing things melds with my brainmeats so I'm using a wiki as a blog. It's fine, just recently I've used a screwdriver as a chisel, a nail clipper as a screwdriver, a soldering iron as a cigarette lighter and a cigarette lighter as a soldering iron, my grasping claws are dexterous and crafty and can turn a thing into another thing nooooo problem.
Most things want to be other things. A blog-wiki hybrid is already everything it wants to be, because it doesn't have to just move forward like a train, it can also go sideways like mold. You know what I mean, don't you, how websites used to spread themselves out in sections and sections-in-sections growing outwards from the main page over years and years. They might have a “What's New” bit at the top so you have easy access to the newest leaves on the tree. Later, the whole website became the “What's New” page and that is called a blog. It's like a stack of pancakes, you're curious about the one on the bottom, is it crusty, is it growing, is it actually the best one all saturated with the syrup of the ones that came before, but every few minutes the laughing man comes over with his big warm bucket and sticky spatula and he just flops one down on the top of the stack and guffaws “Enjoy!” and you just never find out, it's just pancakes until you stop moving. That's not going to happen here, on this site the bottom pancakes get to put out roots and we're going to watch them grow, we're gonna have both, we're gonna have the link labyrinth AND the sit-still-and-just-eat-it slopfeed, and it's all going to be fine.
I'll make this look pretty tomorrow or next week or never whatever, goodnight