Just Write
This is my attempt at starting a writing habit. I have mentally toiled anguished over wanting to write for I kid-you-not the last ~3 years (ask my wife).
So here it is, the all important landmark post of my writing journey!
(shh ignore that I actually have one prior post)
Why do I want to write? It's quite simple, I consider it a worthy intellectual pursuit. Additionally the bi-weekly meta-blogging/writing posts on HN might have finally cracked me.
I also subscribe to a ton of smart people via RSS feeds, and figured that maybe writing can help me become smarter? That isn't to say all people who write are smart, but I have found many smart people write. It is also a great way to sus out and explore what you think you know, or more importantly what you actually don't know. I'll spare you from rehashing the rest of the meta-writing points.
The last piece of the puzzle was to remove all friction for writing. My prior (single-post) blog was a Hugo static site which, while free, had the friction of:
- running it locally and occasionally updating the deps
- remembering the layout structure and various tagging options
- using
gitthen waiting for Digital Ocean to build it to see it live
So this time around I opted to use Bear Blog which I found through a few of the developers I follow.
It is mostly free, but costs $5 per month for some additional features which I decided to subscribe to. However the biggest benefit is that I can see my updates instantly and it is one less thing for me to maintain.
I'm pretty stoked on the ethos/look/feel of Bear and am excited to pump out some more words soon. Stay tuned!