There are a number of reasons why a person may want a website. In the online spaces I engage with, websites are fairly standard and often take the place of platforms such as LinkedIn. This is atypical for younger or less tech literate people for whom creating a website may seem difficult or a waste of time. As someone who is interested in Free Software and Digital Sovereignty, creating a website and a blog is a no-brainer; it presents an opportunity for expression which is not dependent on large tech companies.

Also, it's just cool to have your own website.

Me.

I don't really expect anyone to be reading (if you are, thanks!) The blog is just for me to collect information and document interests in a way that feels more meaningful than a file on my computer. If others benefit, that's great to.

My interests have varied greatly throughout my life, but this website is likely to focus on technology, physics, and education. Currently, I have a single, all-encompassing, blog but in the future I may separate it into smaller blogs with their own RSS feeds. I am considering writing reviews for music, movies, and art I enjoy.

I like scientific writing, but I don't think I will publish much here; maybe the occasional essay?

The short of it is, using Emacs and Org Mode. I write an org file and this is exported into HTML using a script I wrote (leveraging existing Emacs functions). I may add some more details here at another time but for now I leave the following resources that I found useful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfkrzFodoNw

https://zwpdbh.github.io/emacs/org-to-blog-using-org-publish.html

https://gitlab.com/psachin/psachin.gitlab.io

https://orgmode.org/guide/Publishing.html

https://orgmode.org/worg/org-blog-wiki.html

https://taingram.org/blog/org-mode-blog.html

https://git.sr.ht/~taingram/org-publish-rss/

https://alhassy.com/

While the general function is pretty good, I still want to make some changes to the CSS to improve the look. Also, as I mentioned, I think I will add additional blogs for specific topics similar to Protesilaos' blog. To do this I will need to modify org-publish-rss.el to somehow compile multiple RSS feeds.

It is a great shame that this site is hosted on Github. I will, when time permits, move this site to my own VPS in an attempt to further free myself of Mircosoft.

These are some other useful websites and blogs that partially informed/inspired this blog.

https://protesilaos.com/

https://sachachua.com/blog/

https://landchad.net/

https://lukesmith.xyz/

https://www.taingram.org/

https://sdomi.pl/

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/

Have any comments? Feel free to email me.