Moving out

I’ve decided to move all blogging and writing matters to a write.as account.

It’s strange. This site has always been fully-functional as a generated static site running off on AWS, but all the little inconveniences and maintenance woes are enough of a difference for me between writing something and actually posting what I’ve written.

If I have to break it down step by step, writing a post involves:

• Using hugo to start off a post.
• Manually adjusting metadata about the post.
• Writing the actual post.
• Committing and pushing to git.
• Waiting for Gitlab for its CI runner to do a hugo build
• Waiting for the same runner to upload the results to S3.

versus

• Going to write.as
• Writing the post
• Hitting submit.

It’s crazy because the former process isn’t THAT hard since I deal with code everyday, but it’s bad because:

• the build can fail at times because it’s on a free runner.
• the deployment have failed some times in the past, not sure why.
• there’s the nagging thought that I need to maintain the blog’s software and its theme.

Those points are enough to turn my brain off and actually stop me from writing something.

So yeah, a [simple, plaintext Markdown blog is all I need] and I’m moving to that.