Blog Question Challenge

fLaMEd fury recently tagged me in his Blog Question Challenge post that has been circulating around the indieweb over the past month. I finally got into a headspace to write for my website a bit, so here are my answers!

Why did you start blogging in the first place?

I have a lot of thoughts which are, in my unbiased opinion, pretty great and other people’s lives will improve by reading them. Seriously, though, I mostly wanted to practice writing and expressing my thoughts, which also ends up serving as an archive of my opinions and thoughts as time goes on, for better or for worse.

What platform are you using to manage your blog and why did you choose it?

My blog is a part of my personal website generated with Hugo🔗. I went with a static site generator because I like the idea of websites being static documents but hate the repetition of manually typing out all your boilerplate code. I went with Hugo specifically because it is a static binary that I can throw on basically any machine to generate my site, and it doesn’t even require node.js!

Have you blogged on other platforms before?

I ran a Club Penguin blog on Blogger as a (completely normal) child but other than that this is my first time maintaing a “real” blog for an extended period of time.

How do you write your posts? For example, in a local editing tool, or in a panel/dashboard that’s part of your blog?

It’s all in neovim like our lord and savior John Unix intended.

When do you feel most inspired to write?

It’s pretty random. I’ll go a long time between posts sometimes, and other times I’ll just knock out a bunch of posts at once. There’s nothing special about today, for example, but I got the urge to finally write out some posts I had brewing up in my mind.

Do you publish immediately after writing, or do you let it simmer a bit as a draft?

It depends on the kind of post. Something short and quick like this will usually get published immediately. Something more involved like my iPod post will sit in my drafts for a while until I am happy (enough) with it to publish.

What’s your favourite post on your blog?

Probably my afforementioned iPod post. It was kind of the capstone on a month long project of procuring and repairing iPods. It was also the first time I went into a project knowing I would want to write a blog post about it, which makes me feel like real blogger for once.

Any future plans for your blog? Maybe a redesign, a move to another platform, or adding a new feature?

I’m thinking of a new concept for my site design. I seem to get the urge to redo my site layout every year. It would be cool to set up my site so that it can be viewed in all of the layouts and themes it has had, but that might be too ambitious of a project to take on right now. Other than that, I would like to post more frequently and focus a bit on smaller posts about cool things I find online.

Your Turn!

Idk, I guess if you read this then you’re now obligated to answer these questions as well, if you haven’t already. Have fun!