This blog : Origin

I've decide to start a blog.

After a short-lasting affair with Medium, this time for real and doing it proper. And after the final bit of procrastination - building a custom static site generator - I'm ready.

Why and What

Two questions, one answer.

Blog is short for weblog. And that's my intention here. To keep a public log of activities and ideas.

The term "weblog" was coined by Jorn Barger on December 17, 1997.

The motivation behind this blog is entirely selfish. I intent to:

1. Force myself to better formulate ideas and projects
2. Hold myself accountable
3. Keep a "paper" trail - for future reference and to share with others

That's about enough for the start.

How

• Inspired by slick static site generator.
• Uses the shake build system. Renders markdown files into a static webpage and generates syndication feeds.
• Reproducibly built using nix. And cached with cachix.
• Automated CI deployment to Github Pages (using Github Action).

TL;DR push and forget

Legal

• Copyright 2020 Martin Toman
• Content licensed under CC BY 4.0.
• Code licensed under BSD 3-Clause.

I encourage everyone who would like to do so to fork my setup and use it for anythinig they like.

Conclusion

Finally started a blog. Github centric setup. Do the same, if you like.