Mon 04 September 2017 | -- (permalink)

After the Nth time that I've muttered about having found the solution to some pesky technical thing only to have some friend say "Gee, I hope you posted that somewhere", I decided to test whether a blog would be a useful way to handle such things.

Don't expect this to be udpated on any kind of regular basis, at least for now it's just a corner of an existing web site and is only a blog because that might make it more useful to, um, somebody.

Chosen tool for this experiment is http://docs.blogofile.com/, for a few reasons:

• While a bit complex, it's still simpler than most blogging tools.

• It's a "compiler", so it generates static content from plain text files which I can edit with emacs and manage with git.

• It's written in a reasonable language (Python).

• The part that I'll have to deal with after finishing the initial setup is mostly just YAML and Markdown, although it has the ability to go beyond that given a need.

Haven't figured out yet how much of the Google-related stuff I want to turn off, in general I prefer not to feed the Big Data Hoover but if the point of this is public information that I want to be found, the usual privacy concerns may not apply.

And yes, the title and description of this blog are hat tips to John Scalzi and Neal Stephenson, respectively.