And so another blog begins.

The process of starting a new blog is familiar, yet unfamiliar. I’ve been making and abandoning personal pages since html had only a handful of tags as both my interests and technology wane and wax. There is always a template I don’t quite like, colors to set, configuration to check, and eventually the site is live. Hopefully WordPress is mature enough to keep updates going for a while. My old Github pages Jekyll blog got obsolete enough that I had to start from scratch and naturally there we no good directions to follow. Once I went through the pain of setting it up in Ruby 3.2.2, I figured out that the Jekyll templates supported by Github are still only semi-functional and promptly bailed.

The WordPress installation was the exact opposite of Jekyll. I clicked a few buttons in cpanel, and the site was live in minutes. Upon loading the admin panel, I was presented with a bewildering array of paid plug-ins, flashy templates, SEO services, and instead of working in raw code, an editor that obfuscates the CSS to the point where I’ve been inspecting my own page in the browser to figure out some of the classes. Thankfully I’ve done a bit of responsive design so the block structure comes fairly easily. I’ll probably have a good laugh when I look at this on my phone after saying that.

I was going to do some writing and make a few posts today, but as usual setting up the blog took longer than I expected and I need to go touch grass.

If you’re here welcome. We’ll see what evolves in this iteration of blogging.