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title = "Hello World"
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date = "2022-11-02"
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updated = "2022-11-02"
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[extra]
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authors = ["Ydreniv"]
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Hello !
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This is my first blog post on this website.
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I will talk about my plans for it.
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## Current state of blogging
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Let's begin by taking a look at my current blogging situation.
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First off, I currently maintain two blogs :
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[Minis](https://minis.kestrels-and-roses.rocks), about wargaming and
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miniatures, and [I am the Fog in the Forest](https://masuksa.github.io/blog),
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a music blog.
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However, I also have a [personal website](https://matthias4217.github.io), and
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this Tilde website as well.
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I am planning to transfer my personal website from
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[Jekyll](https://jekyllrb.com/) to [Zola](https://www.getzola.org/), and I will
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probably setup a blog on it then.
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But as you can see with this post, I am also starting a Tilde blog.
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I'm worried that I'll be able to keep up with so many platforms.
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However, I'm not planning to regularly update my personal or Tilde blog.
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Concerning *Minis*, I'm trying to post a new article every week.
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I haven't been able to follow this schedule, but I've posted more than an
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article per month on average, so I'm okay with this.
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As for *I am the Fog in the Forest*, until yesterday, it had had no update for
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more than a year.
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There are still a couple of technical things to work on, and this has bothered
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me, to the pouint of not publishing anything.
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So adding to more blogs may not be the best idea ever.
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I'll see how that goes.
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In the future, I am still not sure what I will post on which platform.
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I know that I will try to regularly write pieces of fiction.
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I also want to talk a bit about computer stuff.
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Yet I am not sure where to put these two.
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They are well within the genre of content of [Tilde Town](https://tilde.town),
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so would fit nicely there.
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But I want to store my projects, whether technical or artistic on my own
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server, and so talking about them there would make more sense.
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Thus, my plan is to post news of my projects on my personal server.
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This would also serve as a sort of portfolio.
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On this Tilde I would mostly talk about this Tilde, and maybe some silly
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experiments, smaller pieces of things and various stuff.
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As you can see, I don't have any clear plan yet, but I'll get there.
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## The future of this site
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Given that you're reading my blog, you may already have noticed that there are
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several pages on my Tilde site.
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None are truly finished, but I've fleshed out the basic concept.
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I want every single page to have a different style, except the blog part.
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The index is a pink page with a static right column, and a retro vibe.
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I don't know where this will lead me.
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For my Ideas page (more on this later), I want to give it the look of a
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parchment.
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The colors are there, as is the layout, but I'll need to add the texture and
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the font.
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As I want to keep it as lightweight as possible, I don't want to have a 4K
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parchment texture background image, so I don't know yet how I will do this.
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The last page I have created so far is this blog, or rather, this *newspaper*.
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This is quite simple to do, and I'd say 95% of it is done.
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[Lucidiot](http://tilde.town/~lucidiot/), the one who introduced the concept
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of tildes to me, maintains a list of [his
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ideas](http://tilde.town/~lucidiot/ideas).
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They are mostly the abandoned ones, given to the public, and with some
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explanations about what made him abandon them.
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I think it's neat, both on a personal scale and on a public one.
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Such a list allows to get an overview of things one has undertaken, with a
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reminder of the purpose of the project as well as the challenges.
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It also means anyone can come and potentially finish one of the ideas one day.
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I've decided I'd do an idea page as well.
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For now, it's mostly new ideas, that I haven't even started.
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This serves both as a project todo list and as a brain dump.
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Indeed, the issues with ideas is that I don't want to abandon them.
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If I don't write them down, they will just poison my mind, until I forget all
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about them.
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By giving them such a space, it should ease my mind.
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In a similar vein to this ideas page, I've started a question section on my
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homepage, which will eventually become a fully-fledged page.
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I will write there things I wonder, but haven't got time to do research yet.
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If anybody reads it and has some answers, or elements of them, I'd like to be
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contacted to get them !
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Another thing I want to work on there is feeds.
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I've been using feeds for years, and I regret that they aren't more used on
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the web.
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Too often, I find blogs, or websites posting news on a subject, and they don't
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have any kind of feeds.
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It's usually because of a lack of time by the webmaster, or a will to monetize
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content by having people come directly to the site.
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The latter is quite a bad capitalist practice in my opinion, and social media
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have made it worse.
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So I try having feeds on my weblogs.
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For now, every static-site generator I have used had this feature, so setting
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this up has been relatively painless.
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With Zola, all I needed was to add a line in the `config.toml` file :
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```toml
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generate_feed = true
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```
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But while I was at it, something came to my mind, which I immediately wrote to
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my [ideas](@/ideas.md) : between my blogs, Github, Gitlab, Wikipedia,
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Openstreetmaps and all kind of other accounts, I probably generate quite a
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number of feeds.
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I'd like to list them, and see if that tells me something.
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## Tilde Town
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I've been on Tilde Town for about a week now.
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It's a nice place, and there are lots of cyberstuff to learn and experiment
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with.
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I'm not the most outgoing person, and my time has been taken by various other
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activities, but I've still been able to mail a couple people and chat on IRC.
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So far, I'd say my presence here has been quite positive to me.
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