A long time ago, I was convinced that I had useful technical and miscellaneous intel to share with the world. I created a wordpress blog. I was young, 21. I was close to a server room with a failing cooler, and therefore an open door to get fresh air from… outside.
To occupy myself, I decided with a friend to rent my first dedicated bare-metal server and to book my first domain name.
I first started a howtos directory containing a shitload of
quick-and-dirty tutorials to set up the different elements in the
stack of this server (mails, I’m still self-hosted up to this day,
a Moinmoin wiki which got removed since then, etc).
I was convinced that at some time I’d publish them. So, the wordpress.
But truth is, I hate WordPress and other CMS like this. Dynamic shit is not really my stuff. So I killed it right before it was actually something.
Quite later, I spawned this. It’s cute, but it’s all manually done with Org Mode. It’s quite nifty, and in general my productivity with this emacs plugin improved a lot. But maintaining a personal site+blog with it was not something pleasant for me. Either I’d need a lot of other packages and plugins, or worse, to write elisp myself, or I’d have to do it all manually, and it would contain a lot of error (believe my SysEng experience, if not all, most problems come from the human factor).
I saw in 2021 that multiple static website generators like pelican were on the market, but I was lazy. My son had just got born and I decided that it was not the right time.
Until recently.
So here we go again.
Be it useful to one, I’ll be glad. Be it useful to no one, I’ll still be happy as it’ll serve also as a brain dump for me. You might find plenty cooking recipes (probably in French, sorry, except if enough people want an english translation so that it’s worth doing).
But for now, let’s just :wq this one.