Welcome to my new blog

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Hello, and welcome to my new blog. Hopefully this one will not get abandoned like the numerous previous ones, and there's a high chance for that since I designed the look for it from scratch. I guess the more work you put into something the harder it is to just abandon it. Probably the biggest and most risky change I took is not using WordPress this time. I kind of got fed up with how complicated it made things. I mean, sure, it can do a lot of things, but writing templates for WordPress is a nightmare. And I guess using something else than WP adds to the cool factor.

Pelican

As I mentioned previously, I abandoned WordPress for Pelican. It's a lightweight blogging system written in Python, and it generates static html pages so I can host this basically everywhere. It also has an added bonus of making the blog ridicously fast to browse. Over the next days I'll be expanding on the template and functionality of the blog, but it takes time, as always when you learn new things.

New Design

Previously, because trying to write a custom theme for WordPress was a nightmare taking way too much time, I just used… well, the default theme for the year, barely bothering to change anything. This time I designed the theme from the scratch. You could say the whole theme is a bit of a happy accident, as the idea for it popped up when I was fooling with things randomly and made a mistake. I used white as the main background colour, and added some green and black accents and this happened.