A blog in 2026? By me? Wild
People who know me know that I'm not much of a writer but after seeing some cool blogs from my friends I figured I'd try this thing out as well.
So what can you expect to see here? Well, just to state up front, there will be zero structure to this blog. It'll effectively be a dumping ground for random projects I create or interesting things I find and take a look at. I have some projects listed on my homepage that may end up appearing in future posts here but that's a very big maybe.
Anyways, how does one make a blog these days even?
Field trip to build-a-blog
Every blogger begins off with the question of "but how do i make a blog?"
There are a lot of options out there, ranging from click some buttons and write to manually writing HTML and FTP'ing it onto a web server. I decided on a middle ground of using a static site generator for a couple of reasons:
- I like keeping things very minimalistic
- I'm already using Github Pages to host my homepage so a static blog would be easy to add there
- I like Markdown and Python
There was a thought of rolling my own (as I tend to like to do with various projects for no reason) and I was also looking at other options like Hugo and Jekyll but from my previous job I remembered Pelican. As I have previous experience with it and from how quickly I could make a fairly complex website for my old job using it, I knew it would be great for a quick and dirty blog. I got the templates and styling figured out in like an hour or two and was already set to write this post.
And here we are now.
Future plans for this blog
There are a few things I still want to add to the blog. You may see that the sidebar on the left is quite empty. Plan is to add a category list onto there so it's easier to find the posts that somewhat link together. Besides that I don't think there's a lot to add. Keep it simple, stupid.
-- Zi