#include <stdio.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
    printf("%s\n", (char[]){ 72, 101, 108, 108, 111, 32, 87, 111, 114, 108, 100, 33 });
}

So here we go.

After years of putting it off, I finally bit the bullet and bought a personal domain name. My main intention was to get out of gmail and avoid trapping myself with whoever I end up going with for hosting my mail.

Now, as long as that domain is paid for, why not build a website ?

As a long time critic of social media and advocate for re-decentralizing the web, I figure it's time to put my money where my mouth is. Whether or not I end up using this space for anything interesting remains to be seen, but let's take this one step at a time, shall we ?

I had heard of Pelican for a while already and decided to give it a try. The new kid on the block, Hugo, seems to be more popular these days, and maybe I'll give it a try, but being used to python I figured it would make things easier.¹

A couple of days hacking up a theme (CSS and I are not the best of friends...) and here we are. This won't win any beauty contest, but I like the minimalist vibe of it all so far.

So what's this thing gonna be ?

I'm not sure yet. I'm feeling an itch to start writing again and figure I'll just get started on that and see where it goes.

The question of who I'm writing for can't really be avoided, though. No sense in writing anything if you're not addressing someone. And while the void of the interwebs is good enough for now, at some point I'll have to decide on a language to use (an actual human language, that is).

I've always loved English and tend to naturally use it whenever it's surrounding me (like when I'm coding or reading tech documentation, which is what I've been doing for the last 2 days), so obviously it didn't even occur to me to translate the theme I was putting together and now using another language would only feel weird.

But I do know that if this blog ever attracts some readers, those will almost certainly be french people², at least in the begining.

So what do I do ? Switch the whole site to french ? Aim for an international audience right from the begining ? Internationalizing the site should be easy enough, but do I feel like translating everything I post on here ? Hell, who's really gonna care if I just switch language randomly, consistency be damned.

As with about everything else, I guess the answer is "who knows, let's just see what happens".

Enough rambling for now. Time to go mess with Nginx and get this show started.

See ya, interwebs!