Building, and building some more
This week, my focus hasn't been on blogging. Well, technically it was, but not on writing new blog posts.
You see, on Thursday I found an old archive on a backup drive, of my blog from 2018 to 2023. I used to have that archive in my backup directory but that file was corrupted, and I REALLY didn't feel like importing all those blog posts yet (I did have an export of all the files as text, but without the dates posted), so I decided last year to start anew.
But now I had that archive, and I had another archive of even older blog posts, going back to 2007.
Oh boy, now I started to get excited.
I couldn't create a Ghost blog fast enough. Couple clicks on pikapods, set up blog with a theme I like, and I started to import all those archives (once using Wordpress to import a csv export).
Before long, my ghost site was filled up with posts I hadn't read in years and I was convinced I wanted to keep blogging on ghost, point my domain there, and have all those old blog posts on the web.
The next day, I knew I didn't want that. I love the indie web, and loved the simplicity of just sitting and blogging and not caring about SEO and all that crap that Ghost now made me focus on.
But what else could I do?
And that's when I thought of weblog.lol . I'd abandoned my weblog in favour of Bearblog last year, when I was half way through building a weblog when I fell ill and didn't want the hassle.
I kinda do want it now.
I dove in, and boy, did I fall in love all over again.
I just LOVE tinkering with templates, I remembered things I learned in CSS years ago, and implemented them. I used up half my Kagi search credits with CSS related questions.
And slowly, but surely, the site started to look the way I wanted it to.
I imported blog posts, one by one, copy/paste becoming a rapid routine.
The more I filled up the weblog, the more I fell in love.
I even added a page from a 2004 blog filled with journaling prompts. I updated the java script and now that's running here
So here it is, my little blog that could. The blog I wanted when I first signed up for omg.lol and found out that there was a weblogging option.
It's nowhere near perfect. That's why I will keep on putting blog posts on Bearblog too and sharing them.
But this will be my main blog. I will figure out how to make the blog both light and dark mode, and on how to make the css more mobile friendly.
I will also add more little buttons to the bottom, because I used to love to create those. There are still some lingering in my archive folder, I bet.
And I will just have fun. I will not have a care in the world whether I post every day or not.
I will import blog posts one at a time, I will tinker as much as I like. This is my home, and in my home, tinkering is mandatory.
Focusing on joy is too, and boy, have I found that in spades. It made me remember that first little website I created back in the 90s, my first domain that I hand coded using a plethora of tutorials.
It's flawed but oh so joyful. Time to get back to that!
You see, on Thursday I found an old archive on a backup drive, of my blog from 2018 to 2023. I used to have that archive in my backup directory but that file was corrupted, and I REALLY didn't feel like importing all those blog posts yet (I did have an export of all the files as text, but without the dates posted), so I decided last year to start anew.
But now I had that archive, and I had another archive of even older blog posts, going back to 2007.
Oh boy, now I started to get excited.
I couldn't create a Ghost blog fast enough. Couple clicks on pikapods, set up blog with a theme I like, and I started to import all those archives (once using Wordpress to import a csv export).
Before long, my ghost site was filled up with posts I hadn't read in years and I was convinced I wanted to keep blogging on ghost, point my domain there, and have all those old blog posts on the web.
The next day, I knew I didn't want that. I love the indie web, and loved the simplicity of just sitting and blogging and not caring about SEO and all that crap that Ghost now made me focus on.
But what else could I do?
And that's when I thought of weblog.lol . I'd abandoned my weblog in favour of Bearblog last year, when I was half way through building a weblog when I fell ill and didn't want the hassle.
I kinda do want it now.
I dove in, and boy, did I fall in love all over again.
I just LOVE tinkering with templates, I remembered things I learned in CSS years ago, and implemented them. I used up half my Kagi search credits with CSS related questions.
And slowly, but surely, the site started to look the way I wanted it to.
I imported blog posts, one by one, copy/paste becoming a rapid routine.
The more I filled up the weblog, the more I fell in love.
I even added a page from a 2004 blog filled with journaling prompts. I updated the java script and now that's running here
So here it is, my little blog that could. The blog I wanted when I first signed up for omg.lol and found out that there was a weblogging option.
It's nowhere near perfect. That's why I will keep on putting blog posts on Bearblog too and sharing them.
But this will be my main blog. I will figure out how to make the blog both light and dark mode, and on how to make the css more mobile friendly.
I will also add more little buttons to the bottom, because I used to love to create those. There are still some lingering in my archive folder, I bet.
And I will just have fun. I will not have a care in the world whether I post every day or not.
I will import blog posts one at a time, I will tinker as much as I like. This is my home, and in my home, tinkering is mandatory.
Focusing on joy is too, and boy, have I found that in spades. It made me remember that first little website I created back in the 90s, my first domain that I hand coded using a plethora of tutorials.
It's flawed but oh so joyful. Time to get back to that!