For quite some time now I was thinking about getting a "home" in the world wide web. Well, here it is. So much creativity in the title, I know, but I had to.
It has to start somewhere, it has to start sometime
What better place than here, what better time than now? For quite some time also means, I carried drafts for this article, and other texts to start with, around with me since late 2020.
I considered things never really final and thought this does not make any sense. So here we go:
What platform, blogging system or CMS to use?
There are so many possibilities to publish nowadays. One could quickly register for a Medium account and start writing. Wordpress with or without a pre-built theme is set-up fast, either on its own platform or by installing it on a given webhost.
Others end up building their own customized solution. This kind of happened here. However, there is no Static Site Generator, no headless CMS in place to manage my content. The base for this website is a boring, but solid PHP system.
Processwire for the win
Processwire usually is my choice for these kind of things where I or somebody else has to maintain content. I used it for some time now for various projects and it proved itself again and again to be very customizable and quick to set up.
While Processwire might not exactly is a blogging platform, it could become one. As usual I started with the so-called basic (empty) profile. It took me longer than I anticipated to get the system into the desired state for this website, but we all love customizing, don't we? So I filed it under another lesson of getting to know Processwire a bit more.
Why am I doing this?
I want to document what I am doing and learning and I want to write more in general and improve this skill, too. If you are interested in the how and why, head over to the About page.
The structure and content types might not be final. What actually qualifies an article to be an article and not a note? Not sure yet. It's likely something shorter than this text. I am going to figure this out soon.
How to follow?
Right now, and very likely also in future, the only way to subscribe is via RSS. In case you didn't know, RSS is the coolest thing in the internet anyway. Probably the best (subscription service) there is, the best there was and the best there ever will be.