This is my first blog post on this site. Actually it’s about how I set up this blog in the first place and why.
I’m going to switch job soon, and with it comes that I put a lot more on github lately than usual. Including some fun projects that I was asked about where the source is and so on. I wondered why not, purely for the sake of fun set up a blog?
I mean, I do know its not the most thrilling thing you can do in 2020 but maybe (I hope so) some of my former colleges will still follow me onwards after I left my current employer. And this might be a plcae for them to come from time to time. Who knows?
There where times before when I thought about doing this (especially after I started getting into Kubernetes) but I didn’t feel like it at that time.
The more I work with open source though, the more I like the idea of sharing. I just never felt that what I do might be worth it (still don’t think so to be honest) … but maybe others thought the same? So why not start talking about things that I like here and link them together. Even if its only for my personal use. Probably it is … but this brings me to one of the most thrilling things to me in open source:
“Someone did probably what you want to do before in a better way!”
And so it is like 99% of the times. As well as this time! I was sure about hosting at GitHub Pages straight away and was searching for a good template for a blog. Quickly I stumbled across Jekyll Now written by Barry Clark. It looked exactly like what I was searching for but lacking a few features (like code highlighting styles) and I would’ve needed to tweak quite a lot.
Thanks to some other people on his Issue list I then found a fork Reverie that has all of that.
And here we are. An hour or so later I have my stuff online. Isn’t open source awesome? I certainly feel it is. And I actually hope to come up with something original at some point that other people like as much as I do like others stuff.