Back on my bullshit

Well, it’s been a while, I set this blog down after completing 100DaysToOffload and I pretty much didn’t touch my laptop for nearly 3 years.

A fair amount happened in 3 years, all of which I can use as blog fodder in future, but to sum up a couple of the highlights…

Work

Work got intense. Some very key people left the company I worked for (there were only about 20 employees to begin with), I took on a new role. In an attempt to be positive and professional, I attempted to treat the situation as an opportunity, this was a mistake. I left and got a job somewhere else. It’s marginally better.

Dog

I got I dog. The dog is also intense. I’ve looked after dogs before, I’m very much a dog person, but I haven’t taken all that well to being a dog owner, it’s been a testing experience for me.

Off the waggon

As with not touching my laptop in nearly three years, this’s similarly true of my cycling. It’s one of those things that makes kind of sad, but not to the extent where I’m doing anything about it.

Back to tinkering

Which brings me to now. I picked up my laptop… I can’t even recall exactly why. It took me a good while to remember how to use i3 window manager and the rest of my setup. What do I start doing? Well, the same old shit of course: Tinkering around with Hugo.

This time I get it in my head that I can host my static blog alongside a GoToSocial instance and hack it to such an extent that it can act as an ActivityPub wrapper around the blog. Amazingly, it seems like it might just work and I’m excited to get it all done and see it working as I imagined, but of course, it’s slow going.

So, here I am, writing a new post on a half finished site based on a half baked idea. The css is a work in progress, the navigation is incomplete, the homepage is blank, the non-blog pages a bit of a mess, and I don’t know what it will all look like when it’s finally done. But the RSS feeds and all the links and slugs should be fine and stable… And I wanted to start writing, so here it is.