I figured since we have a new year I’d like to start blogging again, hopefully to improve my writing skills and see where I go with my random ideas.
I’m unsure if I’ll stick with WordPress or not yet, I intended to use WordPress since it was a highly used platform back when I first tried out this whole blogging thing back in 2014, it gave me the chance to learn it’s design and workings to maybe create plugins and themes, as well as anything else it has to offer, obviously that didn’t work and I abandoned blogging, well not really but it was so sporadic that it may as well have been.
Furthermore, I have taken a look at Hugo which seems very interesting and pretty fast they even claim to be “The world’s fastest framework” for building websites, have really nice themes on it, as well as being coded in Go, giving it something to look into in the future, my other option was Jekyll which is coded in Ruby, has been going for over a decade and seems to be greatly maintained.
I found out about Jekyll back when I was in college in 2012 and heard that the Obama campaign were using static site webpages to lower load times, save resources on queries and it got me thinking, with heavy usage of preloading, CDNs and static web pages, you could pull off a really fast loading website, almost like it was instantaneous. Very interesting stuff, but not really something to ramble on about in this blog post.
Either way, I decided to delete all my previous blog posts since it was a mismatch of broken challenges, updates and out of date information, so the “new year, new me” trope and everything is what we’re going with.
I’m still not sure what to focus on with this blog, but I think I’ll mainly be using it to give my ideas on tech, my life, and see if I can hold myself accountable with any challenges I would like to do (because that worked out amazing for me last time I tried this).
Either way, I do have a few goals for this year:
- To blog at least once a week, 52 blog posts at a minimum for the year.
- Read 24 books this year (I tried 52 last year, didn’t work).
- Get into better shape physically.
I don’t think they’re overly difficult challenges, I mean they are, but I’d like to think they’re doable. As stated in the list, I attempted 52 books last year, which quickly fell off due to me having to read a book, have no real time to take it in, reflect or really absorb it too well before moving onto the next book. So dropping to 24 will hopefully give me that little breathing room that I need to digest and enjoy the book before moving onto the next one. If that makes sense?
So, this is my first post of the year, It’s on the cusp of being late, but it’s still in, so it’s already looking to me as a win.
Happy New Year, I look forward to posting some total random drivel, seeing what this year brings and challenging myself with these goals.