Most personal blogs die in their first six months. I know this because I’ve killed two of mine. So why start another?
Three reasons.
1. A place that’s mine
Twitter, Substack, Medium — they all decide what your writing looks like, who sees it, and whether it stays online. A static site on a $5 VPS is the closest thing to owning your words on the modern web. The whole stack here is Hugo generating HTML, Nginx serving files, and a Let’s Encrypt cert. If any of those shut down tomorrow, the content is still a folder of Markdown on my laptop.
2. Writing helps me think
I have a recurring pattern: I think I understand something, I sit down to write about it, I realize I don’t, I go re-read the docs, I figure it out properly, then the post comes out. The post is a side effect. The thinking is the point.
3. Future me will thank me
The TIL posts I plan to write are mostly for me, six months from now, when I’ve
forgotten how EXPLAIN (ANALYZE, BUFFERS) works. If two other people benefit,
that’s bonus.
Topics will mostly be:
- Engineering — backend, databases, distributed systems, the occasional Rust deep-dive
- TIL — short notes on things I just learned
- Reading — books and papers
- Life — occasional, low effort
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See you around.