Hello World
I want a space on the internet where I can share my thoughts. Obviously, this site is one such space. This is yet another attempt at blogging. I've tried numerous times over the 00s and 10s.
This last time I fell into the wonder that is digital gardening in public instead of blogging. I published my notes via Obsidian Publish. It was pretty great because I felt like I was actually able to get my thoughts out. However, a lot of my notes aren't supposed to be public because they're more like journal entries. These notes are the result of me wrestling with Jesus, and I'm not usually ready to share them yet. You'd think I'd just not publish those specific notes. Backlinking is the double-edged sword of digital gardening. It's a great feature to link separate notes and ideas together. However, any link to these private notes would be a deadlink on my website, and that's not helpful. I have since made my digital garden private. My hope is to still use it as a tool to organize my thoughts, but it won't be in public like most digital gardens you ready about.
This blog is hopefully the solution to being able to express myself. I discovered Bear through Logan Let's Go. It seems to be exactly what I want. I believe the web and modern applications are bloated. Computers do not feel significantly faster than 20 years ago because programs have bloated up to fill the new resources given to them via Moore's Law. I want my website to be quick, minimal, and most importantly, not reliant on JavaScript. Bear seems to be everything I wanted. It's minimal with no sysadmin work needed. I can just focus on writing. I have this problem where I focus on the systems instead of creating.
So here I go with another attempt at blogging. Hopefully, this time it sticks.