Initial Post

Why this blog?

In my first blog article I talk about my motivation for creating this homepage and maintaining a blog. In addition I give a brief idea of what will be the content of the blog.

Homepage

To be honest I made this homepage to see if I could do it and because I thought that it is a fun project. I don’t assume that anybody will really read it. The process of creating the homepage consisted of many steps which initially have been: Renting a server and a domain, connecting my domain and server with DNS records and setting up a web server. Luckily, I had a good manual on how to do it step by step. Thus, it wasn’t that hard. Nonetheless, I learned so many interesting things in the process.

Still after successfully implementing the steps given above one has a working homepage but without any content. My friends recommended me to just use wordpress or something similar to get a working, nicely designed homepage out-of-the-box. However, I decided to make and design it by myself using plain html and css. Why? First, I like to do things by my own the reason being that I learn more in this process and I am able to keep it simple. Secondly, I wanted to learn how use html and css which I never used before. And thirdly, a wordpress page is full of useless unnecessary stuff such as animations and javascript which I don’t want to use.

After a long time without touching my homepage I remade it using the static site generator hugo. The result is what one can see here.

Blog

My motivation for creating this blog is mainly to practice my writing skills. Writing has always been a huge problem for me; If someone reads this text will probably directly recognize my bad writing skills.

Content

The content of this blog will mainly consist of physics related topics, probably on linux, server administration and self-hosting with open source software.