To blog or not to blog?

For the past 15 years, I’ve always tried or thought about running a blog, but I always failed. Initially, this domain shared my thoughts on open-source and technology topics that I found interesting. Later, after I began freelancing as a web developer, it served more as a showcase of my projects. In either case, the motivation for writing and maintaining a blog wasn’t enough to keep it going—until now. At least, that’s what I hope, and this is my intention.

This isn’t a New Year’s resolution, even though the timing of this post is suspiciously close to the start of a new year. It’s more of a personal need to try to keep a log of the things that interest me. There isn’t a specific area that this blog will target because I find it difficult to stay consistent with one topic, like technology or politics. As the tagline suggests, this is about some uncertain steps towards a better, less narrow understanding of the world.

An additional motivation for the links section of this blog is the relevant article from Simon Willison’s excellent blog. I really like his approach to blogging in general and, more specifically, to the importance of linking to things we find online.

The Technology Behind This Blog

I recently stumbled upon (Project Astro)[https://astro.build/], which I find interesting, especially for its stated goal of keeping the web simpler and its customizable nature, as well as its server-first approach. Since I’m old enough to have seen the evolution of various web frameworks and tools, I don’t rely heavily on a specific framework. However, I prioritize using one that would allow me to keep the content in an accessible and future-proof format. Thus, the use of markdown seems an obvious choice.

Since I like everything that’s containerized, this blog is also built every time a new addition is committed via Git into a Docker image that contains Nginx with the built website artifacts.