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authorHannah Isopod <me@bathynomus.xyz>2026-02-15 22:42:27 -0700
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THE BIG ONE
Total website redesign. Multiple new blog posts. Routine updates on several pages. Too much to list, even if I remembered it all. Remind me not to put this git repo on any portfolios.
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Conveniently, this also serves the purpose of the obligatory "how my CMS works" post I've been meaning to write for the past couple months.
-## Why did you start blogging in the first place?
+# Why did you start blogging in the first place?
Like many of the things on my website, I initially started a real-ass proper we-blog because it seemed like a cool thing to put on my website, and it was a good place to put a style of writing that didn't really feel suited to the various microblogging platforms I already had a presence on. I kept doing it because, as it turns out, I sometimes have a lot to say about something. Most often computer toucher shit.
-## What platform are you using to manage your blog and why did you choose it?
+# What platform are you using to manage your blog and why did you choose it?
To call the thing I've built here a "platform" would be a little generous, I think, but it is pretty interesting, and possibly quite unorthodox.
@@ -24,32 +24,32 @@ The comment section is fully custom too, and shares a backend with the [guestboo
As for why I did all this, I like not being beholden to the moderation guidelines, aesthetic limitations, and in many cases totally batshit leadership of a blog host, and this is also kind of the only solution that lets me do all the wacky custom nonsense I want to do on here, especially without involving any Javascript.
-## How do you write your posts?
+# How do you write your posts?
The fact that all my blog posts are in Markdown means that I theoretically could draft them in Obsidian if I wanted to, but I most often find myself writing at my computer in the same VSCodium window where I write all the code. If anything, this is more convenient, since I still have to upload the files over sftp anyway. Allthough, not havign a spelchecker can be a litle annyoing.
-## Have you blogged on other platforms before?
+# Have you blogged on other platforms before?
Not really. I briefly used Blogger and I think a couple other things for school projects at various points in my upbringing, but this site represents my first time seriously maintaining a long-form blog.
I mean, the official term for your Tumblr profile is "blog", and I have been on there for like eight or nine years at this point, but given how I use that site I don't think it counts for our purposes here today.
-## When do you feel most inspired to write?
+# When do you feel most inspired to write?
I suspect you can guess based on the content of my blog. Most of the posts on here are the result of a really longwinded opinion I wanted to get out, or some very specific thing I did that I wanted to document or otherwise ramble about. So far, inspiration seems to exclusively strike when it's about computer nonsense, but I'd like to try to branch out in the future.
-## Do you publish immediately after writing, or do you let it simmer a bit as a draft?
+# Do you publish immediately after writing, or do you let it simmer a bit as a draft?
I find it's best practice to sleep on it before publishing anything. Oftentimes I'll come back to a post the next day and change anything from a couple typos to huge chunks of the wording. Sometimes rinse and repeat a couple times.
-## What's your favourite post on your blog?
+# What's your favourite post on your blog?
I'm particularly fond of the series documenting my home server builds, [Building a Completely Normal Server](/blog/posts/building_a_normal_server/) and [Building a Relatively Sensible Server](/blog/posts/building_a_sensible_server/). I'd like to do more in-depth project logs like that.
-## Any future plans for your blog?
+# Any future plans for your blog?
Beyond continuing to write the occasional post for it, not really. I've contemplated building some kind of management interface to update it through the browser, but that would be a lot of effort and it's not like a clunky workflow is the main bottleneck to my posting frequency.
-## Why do you write?
+# Why do you write?
I seem to genuinely enjoy this kind of writing. It's conducive to a kind of expression that social media just isn't. Beyond that, I'd like to think someone, somewhere, might perhaps be getting some informational value out of some of these, hence posts like [this](/blog/posts/grow_spikes/), and [that](/blog/posts/guide_blacklist_websites_searxng/), but at the end of the day I wouldn't be doing this if I wasn't compelled to by dark forces beyond my full comprehension &mdash; in other words, Type II fun. \ No newline at end of file