My first post on my new blog.
I will be the first to admit that I have had nearly a dozen first posts across the many many versions of my blog. So who can say if this one will be the first of many posts on this blog or if I will end up replacing WordPress with something else in the future. My journey has lead me back to this CMS after some time. More on that below. At this time though I am happy with having a platform like WordPress to be able to create content on.
Why WordPress? Well the answer is pretty simple and unfortunately boring. It is what I have time and capacity for. It gives me a website out of the box that I can just leave at default settings, and while not perfect, is good enough. I have been adopting this philosophy lately because I noticed that I was drowning in projects and things I wanted to do. Perfect is the enemy of good, and I just need good enough.
I love the concept of static site generators, I think it is brilliant and would be perfect for my blog. However they are not perfect for me. I am a busy person with a full-time job that sees regular overtime. I also have pets, a partner, and.a household to take care of. I love the concept but I cannot commit to the execution. Likewise with other frameworks like Wagtail, Gatsby, Next.js, 11ty/Build Awesome, or whatever the framework-du-jour is.
I discovered that I enjoy and understand the systems administration aspect of self-hosting more than programming and coding. I used to make websites by hand with just HTML, CSS, and some copy-pasted javascript. It was fun, but for right now I just want a platform that lets me easily publish. Otherwise I will never do so because I want to make that “perfect” website with the neat framework that I want to learn all about.
Anyways, I am excited to be here, excited that you are reading this (thanks for reading!), and I am excited to see what I post in the future, and how the site may evolve. I may or may not plan on doing light theme and plugin development, but this time I am not putting any pressure on myself to do so. The website is started, everything else can be extra.