Welcome to my Blog!

Here I talk about the things that I like that don't fit in with the theme of my main website. Topics will likely fall into the realm of nerdery, with hobbyist programming and web development,  tech gadgets, and maybe video games and books.

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Out Of The Box

After first build and deployment, with the default settings, you get a pretty rich static blog website out of the box. With sensible html structure that is not swamped by nested divs upon divs (already a winner here as far as I'm concerned!), a sensible folder structure, and all the necessities that a static site might require.

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My Website

My website.. I mean, my other website. It's another blog space, but it's centred around themed topics. I didn't think I was interested in having a generic blog, but circumstances changed, and then I found Publii, and things just seemed to align.

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Initial Set Up and Deployment

To get things started, I ran through a quick set up sticking with the defaults and deployed to Github Pages. The are a few options on how you deploy or package a website with Publii, and the ones provided set you up for all the common static site deployment methods that I'm familiar with.

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Hello, World!

I have a blog! Well, technically I already have several blogs. But those have opinionated topic themes to them, and as such there is nowhere I can go to scream into the wind about the things I care about (what is this social media you speak of?). But there is also another reason for this new blogspace..

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