How did we get here? WordPress?
This was when I set up the blog in WordPress.
WTF
Isn’t WordPress for non-technical people? Why would I use WordPress?
Also, why am I starting a blog? Didn’t I say that I don’t need a blog?
The reality
Well, if I wrote something moderately decent and long, I need a more decent place for it other than GitHub issues and Reddit.
Of course, I could use GitHub Pages to make a static site, but people wouldn’t be able to comment on that.
Of course, I could set up a whole server with a JavaScript front-end library (probably Svelte) and a back-end with Rust, deploy it on Amazon lambda, and connect it to a PostgreSQL database. That would be really cool. But, then, I would probably need to find a domain for it and pay $20 a year… I don’t want to.
Also, people don’t care about you knowing how to mess with AWS, they only appreciate the silly CSS tricks they see that makes up the front-end. So, setting up a server manually and hosting a blog probably would not be worth it.
What I get with WordPress
- A subdomain.
- Free content server.
- No setup, I just write and post.
Conclusion
For now, that is it. I’ll post random articles here. But, I will manually keep a Markdown copy on GitHub.
2023-05-26