In omnibus autem negotiis priusquam adgrediare, adhibenda est praeparatio diligens.
This is the first blog post. There always has to be at least one. (Does a blog exist if there are no posts?) I would really prefer to write as few “meta” posts as possible, but I suppose some explanation is in order.
Last year, my New Year’s resolution was to accomplish the 100 Days to Offload challenge. I failed to accomplish this. In fact, I quit writing almost entirely for the rest of the year. One reason—not the only reason, but one reason—was the result of always having to fiddle with the software, to be thinking about automated transformations where Org or Markdown became HTML, but which would often fail to be just so. In many cases, I could convince myself not to care, and to leave it be; but sometimes it was a temptation—a double temptation, really: first to spend the time to fix it (time which therefore could not be spent on writing or other things), and second to then write about fixing it (nobody cares about that).
In February of this year, I attempted to get around this by simply writing HTML and putting it online. That was certainly simpler, but as it turned out did not, after all, constitute praeparatio diligens, since it reduced my writing even further. So now I have recognized what I should have done in the first place: namely, pay someone else to do the hard parts. It’s now hosted by micro.blog and (should they ever go offline) backed up at Github. Hopefully that should be enough. Fingers crossed.