I recently started making newsletters for friends as i have deleted all social media (bar this) and i find it super fun and a refreshing way to keep in contact (we send them back to each other). I try and create a new theme every month to pass onto them. And this month, i made a small static site with a few jokey articles on it.
At the end of it, it made me quite nostalic for what we used to have (i had an awful blog in high school, before social media took ahold).
Anyway, after reflecting on it. It made me want to find a few more blogs to read because i loved the format of it and it made me wonder, do you guys have a blog? what do you write about?
Do you want one? what WOULD you write about?
I’ve just recently set up a blog usign Zola (https://www.getzola.org/) because i am looking for something where i’ll actually keep making posts. not quite ready to share it yet, but if it keeps going well i might.
The reason i chose Zola is because it’s easy to write new posts. it’s also simple to setup and very lightweight. a single exectuable (set up a systemd service to start it when the homelab server boots), forward web traffic to it, choose some theme you like and make simple markdown files as posts.
The simple markdown files as posts was the main criteria for me - a small header with title, date and categories, and after that just… pretty much plain text write your post, as a markdown file on the server it’s running on. No special login, no “publish” button, no fancypants UI with all kinds of fields to fill out and formatting options… just write. Zola detects itself it the filesystem changed and automatically reflects your changes on the site.