Hello, World

Here is where I write going forward. My little place of what is supposed to be a decentralized web.

Little experiments in computer science, debugging, code, infrastructure. Whatever I feel like.

If it ever evolves into something good. I’ll write my name on it. For now, it’s just ineptitude.

I knew I wanted to use Hugo or something like it as I want to make my escape from Wordpress, PHP, databases… This is a site that is primarily going to be writing. I wanted it to be lightweight, fast and version controlled.

I wanted to make sure things like code snippets are nice and readable, we’re going to be sharing some code with some frequency here:

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#include <stdio.h>

int main(void)
{
	printf ("hello, world!\n");

	return (0); 
}

Every project begins with a seemingly insurmountable number of trivial choices. How are you going to build the site? What’s it’s going to look like? What’s the domain name?

One of the first themes I landed on and considered was Bear Club but I decided to keep looking. It looked a little too simple…

Hugoplate looked promising but I was quickly deterred by Node and NPM. What’s the point of using something simple and clean like Hugo if you’re going to need to pull in a bazillion Node dependencies. No… Forget about that! I dont want to start this journey by fighting with node and cluttering my machine(s).

PaperMod will be my starting point. Longterm I can switch it out, the content is ultimately what will matter.