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First! A New Years Resolution

I like to write small hacky things from time to time when I have a - weekend to myself, or a day, or an hour... But I never had a place to put - them or the push to complete them beyond their initial hack. So I decided - I should write a blog about it.

Also for work I had to write some prose about myself, something beyond - a technical document or RFC and I realized I am shit at writing my - thoughts outside of a very direct specific technical way.

I am not sure if it is the age of the internet I grew up in where most - of my written communication was informal or for school. But my personal - writing skills are trash and this is my attempt to kill all the birds - with one stone

What can be expected here

My intentions for this site beyond just a landing page with my resume, - I hope to upload some code-snippets from things I found interesting, - ideally some recordings, drawings, and model-painting.

How often do I intend to update this blog

Ideally, whenever I have something that I feel is worth sharing. But - for the sake of my resolution I want to do at least one post a month, and - if I am keeping my other resolutions I should have content to put - here

Designing my site

Designing this blog actually took way more time than it should have. - It began when I wanted to tackle a javascriptless website. And I - found that a bit difficult if I wanted to have code with syntax - highlighting. So I wrote a python script to generate <pre> tag wrapping Java code with partial syntax - highlighting.Possibly mistaking highlight.js - usage documentation. But I would like to prevent having javascript on my - main website keeping it as simplistic as possible.

I test the site using both tidy and - nginx via docker. - Using tidy I can validate the html (making sure I didn't miss any - tags etc) and tidy up any odd spacing. And then visually test it running - nginx. Having it served up similarly to s3 all the paths will work, and - is insanely easy to setup! If you're reading this and have anything - beyond a simple html file I recommend running docker + nginx over any - javascript server.

Then I deploy the site through s3-cli - Which is simple and to the point.

In Closing

I wanted to include more but I ran out of time today to write more, I - will probably update this article with more information (and an updated - timestamp). Or just make another post of my code highlighting task.