Ok, but, like, what even is this place?

2021-06-06

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Some time ago—and less than 48 hours ahead of my exam in networking—I decided I'd spent too long on the Internet without having my own website. I also decided that this was a wonderful opportunity to try out Gatsby for the first time.

*Say hello to Gatsby, because I'd heard about it and wanted to try it.*

So I built this. A simple blog, partly following some guide I found, using Gatsby, with the content in Markdown, and hosting it on Firebase (because it's easy, I've used it before, and the free tier is pretty generous). It builds and deploys with Github Actions (which firebase-cli will just set up for you automatically). I then spent way too long faffing around with image plugins and code formatting just to do what was in the Intro post (by which I mean I spent way longer than I should have given how not terribly complicated the solution was).

So what was it for? What do I do with this? Well, so far, all I've done is write about the blog itself—which seems a bit self-centered and not terribly interesting to be perfectly honest. This will, of course, be about me and my experiences—there is scant else a blog can really be about, after all—but I will aim to make it at least moderately interesting.

Next time: how I circumvented a terrible audiobook app.