how-not-to-blog-2018.md (816B)
1 --- 2 date: "2019-01-07T21:22:31+11:00" 3 draft: true 4 title: How Not to Start a Blog in 2018 5 --- 6 7 This is a story about failure. I've wanted to start my own blog for 8 about a year now, to post about computing things that interest me. I'd 9 spent three months trying to bootstrap it, but now I've tossed all that 10 hard work in the bin. I distracted myself with AWK scripts, Makefiles 11 and shell pipelines and barely focused on the've actual meat of the 12 blog: it's posts. So now I humbly admit defeat and want to walk through 13 my failure, and how I moved on from it. 14 15 ## In The Beginning 16 17 My urge to blog really started when trying to patch around a faulty[^1] 18 site generator. [Luke 19 Smith](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2eYFnH61tmytImy1mTYvhA), a 20 (mostly) Linux-focused youtuber made his own 21 22 [^1]: I say faulty, but really