First Blog Post

Hi, my name is cqst and this is my first blog test. This post is mainly to test out the blogging functionality of my site, but perhaps there is some useless information here. Read on!

What is this blog going to be about?

I don’t really know how I would classify myself. I’m not a software engineer, programmer, cybersecurity professional, or anything like that. I am a college drop out, who, for better or for worse, has spent the last 2-3 years researching and using Linux, GNU/Linux, OpenBSD, etc. I will mostly be writing about those topics but I hope to talk about non-technical topics on my blog as well, the world needs more shouting into the void.

This site is the culmination of a couple of projects, the whole thing is hosted on OpenBSD, that I setup with an auto-install script, I hope to do more work with that and having fully automated OpenBSD stuff using ansible.

I have recently switched my laptop over to running GNU Guix System (I’m typically a Debian user), and I have been learning Emacs and am trying to move away from Vim to Emacs. In fact, this very blog post is being written in Emacs. So I may cover Emacs topics that come up in my usage.

Frustrations with Static Site Generators

I guess if this post doesn’t have much actual content its a good time to rant about what this sets up.

I hate static site generators. This site is using hugo with the ‘smol’ theme, which is not even maintained or listed on the hugo themes page. All I want from a theme is

• toggleable dark/light mode
• tags (optional)
• rss feed
• basically zero css

Unfortunately finding a theme that meets these requirements is incredibly difficult. If it were truly up to me, I would write my blog posts in pure HTML. Which makes having an RSS feed rather difficult. So hopefully this setup is the least bad. In the future I hope to have a homegrown setup using Emacs Org-Mode and the HTML generators from that. But for now, this will have to do.