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For a decade now I've been trying to write and post content. No monetization, no fancy javascript, just brewing ideas and jotting references for my(future)self and others with similar interests.
- Ideas take time to develop
- People can be amazing. You never know who might enjoy it or have something in common
- I often find myself referencing older posts beyond just code snippets
- English isn't my first, or second, language. Writing can hopefully improve my written communication and develop a skillset that I believe has fallen behind over the years
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It finally occurred to me* that all my efforts have failed because I spent more time playing with technology, tooling and platforms than thinking, writing and developing ideas.
From wordpress to jekyll to ghost to hugo,
tumblr to medium to svbtle to blot.im,
heroku to netlify to github pages,
cloudflare pages, workers,
cache optimization, image storage,
CI/CD-flavor of the month,
wasm, etc.I can make the above work, but is this really the goal? Furthermore, the more customized the solution the harder it is to maintain over time. Let's be real, many have been here:
- find new thing
- read docs, maybe
- everything is awesome
- time
- make start -> console errors: ḣ̸̩̓4̶̢̝̘̆̌̿͆ͅc̵̨̝̳͓͎̘͑ͅk̴̖͍̮̀̀3̵̨͓̘̺̥͇̝̀͌̾̇r̶̝̠̬͇̠̙̞̎́̀̋
- no idea. start at 1
The more fiddling offered by the tool or platform, the more I'm tempted to do that instead of write.
And now I crave simplicity and focus over flexibility and extensibility.
I have an idea of the ideal setup, but it's still a bit fuzzy. Either way, I'd like to spend more time writing, developing thoughts, jotting down interesting things and learning how to better express oneself in written form.
*I kind-of always knew it, but didn't want to admit it because it was just too much fun playing with stuff.