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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.