First post!
Date: November 10, 2015
Finally, my blog is up!
It took way too long, but I finally took the time to set up my blog and get it to a state where I can actually begin writing articles for it. The blog itself is powered by Pelican, a static site generator for Python. I prefer it compared to blogging software such as WordPress since the blog posts are really just Markdown files, which are simple to work with. Static sites are also easier to work with using version control. There's also the added bonus of not worrying about a security vulnerability in whatever software I could have used. I also don't like PHP at all :p
I'm not going to go into details about how to set up a Pelican blog since there's good documentation and excellent blog posts by other Pelican users out there. This blog's theme took a while to make, though. I wasn't familiar with Jinja2, which Pelican uses, or other HTML template frameworks, but it wasn't too hard to learn. The result is much simpler than most of the other themes out there, but it works. I'll probably be making tweaks to it periodically.
I do plan on adding comments using Isso, which I found out about recently, but it remains to be seen how well it performs. I am somewhat expecting it to be a bit rough around the edges, but I want to be in complete control of my site's comments instead of using a third-party service to manage them for me.
I suppose that's it for now. I don't know how often I'll actually use this blog, but it's here if I have something to say. I also have no plans for the rest of the website, but I did put the blog in its own folder because I don't want the website to be only the blog and nothing else.
That's enough rambling. Until next time...