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Thoughts about Blogging

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I started blogging in 2009 using Blogger.com. I had been using it from 2009 till 2014. In total, I wrote there 116 posts (the last one I don’t count), see grouped by year below:

  • 2014 (8)
  • 2013 (29)
  • 2012 (32)
  • 2011 (26)
  • 2010 (14)
  • 2009 (7)

I do not remember the reason “why I started blogging”. But, the posts were/are not so good. (You can check it halyph.blogspot.com)

Then I decided to move away from Blogger platform and use Github Pages as a blog hosting platform. In that time Octopress looks appealing. Check out my post 2014-09-07 - Migration to Octopress about this “great” migration.

Octopress has very nice features. The most attractive for me was the markdown as a source for my posts. I thought it will speed up the post creation and give a boost for creativity.

So, I wrote 22 posts from 2014 till 2015.

  • 2015 (18)
  • 2014 (4)

Also, I tried to migrate all posts from Blogger to new engine. I did it. And it was a fail. Octopress could not handle big amount of pages. Don’t get me wrong. It can render all these pages, but it was painfully slow. And it has pieced me off.

Then I though about migration from Octopress to JBake. This engine supports Asciidoc and Markdown formats. Wow, I need this. 😉 New tool and new post’s format (Asciidoc) helps me to be productive. LOL

Well, something was really better: the speed of page rendering, re-rendering and Asciidoc is much powerful format. I was happy. I could create much more complicated posts, with different components (tables, cool lists, quotes, etc). At the beginning it was fun, but I’ve been spending a lot of time in Asciidoc instead of writing the actual content. And here is a BIG F-A-I-L 💣

I created 10 posts from 2015 till 2018:

  • 2016 (5)
  • 2017 (2)
  • 2018 (3)

So, I’ve decided to reflect on my blogging and what it is for me:

  • I like to write in my private wiki, but do not share it with the world. And I write a lot. It’s not something super useful, but it might be interesting for somebody
  • I cared about content. But why did I produced so poor content or no content at all (see period 2016-2018)?
  • Markdown format is not perfect, but it gives a freedom for writing. It’s super simple and support “mind flow” approach for content creation
  • I don’t need to use super complicated blog engine. Pure Github repo as a blog is good for me
  • Since now, I will write for myself only. Anybody can read and gain something from it. It won’t be a traditional blogging. It will be a personal (but public) wiki/notes/thoughts

Let’s see how it will be implemented in 2019!!!