Blogging
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I still feel the need to justify creating this blog.
I tried this once before, many years ago, and stopped pretty quickly because I didn’t think I had anything interesting to contribute. But here we are, I’m getting my site moving and now I’m trying to blog again.
I’m inspired by the Indieweb movement and articles like:
I feel that I’m being given permission to try again; to create something that might be silly and trivial, but that at least is my own, for no other reason than that it’s still possible.
There is so much more creative work out there than what I can come up with, but that’s OK; I do what I’m able to do, I’m not trying to compete, I’m just trying to make a small contribution to a shared culture.
So my first rationale is: since I have enough technical knowledge to run my own site, I should do it just to contribute to the independent web. I may not write insightful and eloquent articles, but I can at least express myself and feed whatever creative spark I may have.
Second, I can use this blog to document things that I’m learning or need to remember; “blogumentation”. For example, I need a quick reference to the journalctl command, and I’m tired of wading through ad-driven web sites just to look up a few examples. I can post a short cheat sheet for my own reference.
Third, one of my hobbies is digital art, both generative and hand-drawn (no AI though). It would be fun to have a place to display my work, to share my creations and to track my own progress.
Fourth, I like to write, and would like to get better at it. I did a fair amount of technical writing in my career: manuals, standards, documentation, but I’m not very good at this kind of conversational blogging. Maybe I’ll get better if I practice?
At least I can give it a try.