My First Post 😃
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This is my first post on what I am calling my "blog". This blog is a little different than most people's blogs—at least when they intend to start a blog for blogging. I am starting this blog not because I have a lot to say nor because I was sponsored by SquareSpace, but rather because I wanted to try building a Markdown to HTML build system for a website. I intend to publish to this blog as if it were my real blog, but I will be doing everything through my own work. All blog entries will start like as Markdown files and will be translated. Metadata will be parsed and (eventually) searchable (currently clicking a tag brings you a 404), and the index will be rendered from the list of entries during the build process.
Why am I rolling my own blog?
It sounded fun. I thought it would be interesting to put together a system like this
Why don't I just use a well-established hosting platform?
I don't really have the time to commit to maintaing a blog and paying for a professional service for something I don't think I can commit to regularly seems silly. Plus writing my own is way more fun so I get to have a blog and a fun project.
What about logging in, how you will draft new posts?
If I wanted to add authentication I would not choose to do that myself, but since I am the only contributor to this blog and I am doing it mostly for fun on the side, I will simply manage entries locally on my computer. I have no need for authentication on my own personal blog, so why bother.
Can other people use this build system?
My blog is hosted on Github pages (for now) and the repository is (by necessity) public, however I extremely do not recommend using it since—as mentioned previously—this is mostly a thing I am doing for fun and not to be the next WordPress. If you want a blog, just use WordPress; if you want to have fun, try rolling your own, but I wouldn't recommend using mine.
What will you write about?
The build process probably. Mac OS X, OS X, and macOS stuff. Programming and technology in general. Probably a little about fonts and typography also.