happy new year to all the engineers who have resolved to write more but decided they need to build a blogging platform first

i'm in this and i don't like it

Hahahhahhahahahaaah definitely not me 🫠

That is an improvement on *cough cough* framework bloggers having "a compelling new approach" which Knuth already had in 1973. You'd hope the democratisation of software engineering would mean less of that but in 2023 it seems to have quintupled.

i'm just using wordpress' service. cba to do anything else.

I did this and it worked lol, mainly by virtue of the "blogging platform" being just a few tens of lines of python

Why do you attack me like this?

Well, I did use WordPress, had to many problems, wrote my own blog engine in php, and been using it since April 2014 (about 72 articles). It's definitely not perfect, it sucks to read on mobile, but it did not stop me to write 😅 blog.defence-force.org/index.php?pa...

hold on, let me just fix up this yaml file

I feel attacked but also seen

The first dozen posts can be about building the site itself! That will definitely attract a vibrant audience.