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Two statements uttered countless times since the dawn of the Internet, and once again at the helm of ushering in an indie web project. As the bells chime, and the customary heavy equipment is waved into position for their role as a two frame GIF, we come together and welcome to the world: another blog. This serves as both an intro and a test post—and before you start carving the headstone—I assure you, I have plenty of writings to the void on the horizon. The thing is, I already do this entirely on my own in LibreOffice, so a lot of this will actually be me reviewing, and posting those words here over time!

You might be wondering how much I've written, and what that'll translate to as far as blog entries. I can tell you for sure, that I have well over 100 pages of journal entries and notes from the last couple of years, which I imagine would be several dozen blog posts by the time I posted them all. By far, my largest writing is the GNU/Linux diary, which as of this post sits at a beefy 94 pages long. It's large enough that I created a separate blog for it here, so it'll be more organized. You might be inclined to think something so large would contain intimate knowledge, or at least something esoteric, but it's actually the opposite. Back when I started this journal, I always felt like everyone who wrote about GNU/Linux endeavors, actually seemed to know what they were doing. So many folks have absolutely no idea what they're doing, and also have zero experience. I thought writing from the prospective of someone who's never touched this stuff their entire life, would be a neat niche to fill, and also help me see how I grow over time.

Beyond that, I intend to purpose this blog (not the GNU/Linux one), with various writings; old, and likely new too. There have been many times where I feel like writing something, but end up succumbing to the combined weight of my unending tiredness, and feeling that the write-up has no place to go anyway. I think what I realistically want is a personal website, but it will take me ages to get one up and running. I let perfect get in the way of good too often, preventing me from getting started on things I actually want to do. That being said, when I happened upon a WriteFreely—a simple FOSS blog platform—my interest was piqued! It's pretty much what I'm looking for: a simple way to write to no one, on my own little corner of the Internet. Something publicly accessible, but with no metrics, or assumptions that anyone will ever read it. A website, if that website was basically just a markdown file. It's so simple, so empty; it's a call to the void—and I'm ready to answer it.

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