Let's try something new

This is my first post on this blog. Not my first blog post ever though. I already started many blogs in the past, but none of them really went further than the customary "Hello blog" initial post.

This time, it's different. I am starting this one from a need: I need to write down stuff somewhere, and I figured out that a blog would do that perfectly. More precisely, I want to write down some instructions about setting up private servers, installing Docker, building clusters, that sort of stuff. So this blog will be rather technical, at least at the beginning.

A few weeks ago (months?), I stumbled across an article from Welcome To the jungle titled "How to Create a Personal Blog as a Developer". I leave that here in case I later want to read it again, as it contains good advices for the newcomer.

About the technology behind this very blog: it is a static site, generated by Zola. It's similar to Jekyll, what I had before (that one only had the Pathbot experiment that I moved here, that's why this article is not the oldest), but it feels simpler. I initially wanted to just update my Jekyll one, but the CLI failed to run because of missing dependencies or something. I want something simple that doesn't break. Zola being distributed as a static binary (thank you Rust), this is perfect.

Here are some TODOs, that I should eventually address:

• A better theme, featuring at least static pages (resume, TODO list) and categories.
• Analytics, but not trackers, because I would like to know if this blog is having some audience.