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Monday, January 23rd, 2006
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Well here we go. An actual honest-to-goodness blog. With RSS and everything. I’ve had my fair share of websites that looked like, and were called, “blogs.” But these were merely hunks of underdeveloped content management tools with a user interface (superficially) resembling that of a full-featured weblog. My last two iterations were authored mainly through copy-and-paste. I used those sites to teach myself how to build web applications and was proud of my single-handed efforts.

But here I am, allowing myself to use web publishing software written by somebody else. It feels odd, but kind of mature in a way. And it’s also a good way to frame how I’d like to develop the subject of this weblog. As a hacker, I should work on the most self-indulgent projects—those projects that challenge me and produce interesting or surprising results. Blog publishing software? Let someone else write that. I shouldn’t be reinventing wheels when there are so many other things out there to do.

Finally, I’ll leave you with a quote I received in Unix fortune upon logging in for the shell session that ultimately conceived this post:

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write. — Saul Bellow

And there it is, we’re off!

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