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My blocker was in infra shaming (from myself). I had started on WordPress years ago on a t3.micro instance, and all was well. Then I wanted to self-host since I

My blocker was in infra shaming (from myself). I had started on WordPress years ago on a t3.micro instance, and all was well. Then I wanted to self-host since I have a substantial homelab and at the time, was an SRE. But I knew that my K8s (k3os technically) cluster wasn’t great, and I wasn’t using Helm correctly, and… all of this made me think I had to get everything perfect, exactly how I wanted it, before I could use it for publishing tech opinions. A few weeks ago I found out you can have GitHub Pages with a custom domain, so I extracted my posts, converted them to Markdown, and now I run Hugo. So much easier, and I don’t fret about what imaginary people might think about me.

cal85 3y ago
What made you stop fretting about that? Did you make the GH-hosted blog anonymous?
- sgarland 3y ago
  Nope - you’re welcome to see it if you’d like (but there’s a huge gap in content, the only new stuff isn’t pure tech, and I make no guarantees about the accuracy of the older content) - it’s my username.dev It was purely self-loathing/projection (idk, not a psychologist), where I was convinced that if _I_ thought my setup was bad, then surely others would judge me and ignore the content as well. I have no idea how I snapped out of that absurd belief, but I’m happy I did, because I really enjoy writing.
  - drewr 3y ago
    Read the first couple of posts and found them very insightful. Thank you for leaving them public.
Nezteb 3y ago
I have this exact same problem. Went from GHP/Jekyll (2012), to GHP/Hugo (2013), to GHP/Hexo (2014), to headless WordPress/React (2017), to Ghost (2018), to Netlify CMS (2019), to Vercel/Gatsby (2020), to Astro (2021), to custom Elixir/Phoenix (2022), to Micro.blog and Substack (2023)... (dates are approximate within ~6 months) I'm still debating what to do next. My motivations go back and forth between "learn some new tech" and "write the dang thing". Either way, I'd really like to stick to something for more than a year. Ideally I'd separate my "site" and "blog".

cal85 3y ago

What made you stop fretting about that? Did you make the GH-hosted blog anonymous?

sgarland 3y ago
Nope - you’re welcome to see it if you’d like (but there’s a huge gap in content, the only new stuff isn’t pure tech, and I make no guarantees about the accuracy of the older content) - it’s my username.dev It was purely self-loathing/projection (idk, not a psychologist), where I was convinced that if _I_ thought my setup was bad, then surely others would judge me and ignore the content as well. I have no idea how I snapped out of that absurd belief, but I’m happy I did, because I really enjoy writing.
- drewr 3y ago
  Read the first couple of posts and found them very insightful. Thank you for leaving them public.

Nezteb 3y ago

I have this exact same problem. Went from GHP/Jekyll (2012), to GHP/Hugo (2013), to GHP/Hexo (2014), to headless WordPress/React (2017), to Ghost (2018), to Netlify CMS (2019), to Vercel/Gatsby (2020), to Astro (2021), to custom Elixir/Phoenix (2022), to Micro.blog and Substack (2023)... (dates are approximate within ~6 months) I'm still debating what to do next. My motivations go back and forth between "learn some new tech" and "write the dang thing". Either way, I'd really like to stick to something for more than a year. Ideally I'd separate my "site" and "blog".