Hello World

New Blog. A place to catalog ideas and projects to share with others.

Why Even Do This?

Over the years I've used a few note taking apps (Notes / Quiver / LogSeq / Emacs Org-Mode) that end up with my notes just being lists of bullet points that I never go back to read, let alone share with another person. I need to flex my writing muscles, I need to be able to form a coherent thought and communicate it clearly. Now, ideally someone finds this interesting and decides to go learn about a topic they care about and then share that with others. Ideally they figure out how to do that without depending on rent-seeking services that don't have the user's best interest in mind.

The Setup

Here's what we're working with:

• Hand typed html
• Static site, managed manually with m4 and make, manually
• No external resources, tracking, analytics, ads or referral links
• No javascript

This may sound archaic and that's the point. Open up your favorite text editor, write text littered with a tiny bit of html markup and move on. Stop stacking needless layers of abstraction. Stop using the process (npm / typescript / hugo / etc..) to avoid doing the work of writing. Find some creativity, make some art. Failing that, make something novel.