First Post

Hello and welcome to The Hellsite. A playful take on Twitter's derogatory nickname and somewhat apt related name to this site's domain. This is my new personal blog and playtoy. I've thought a little about blogging for a while now since I don't like the short-form of twitter and think having conversations there is fairly difficult.

Instead, here is me writing in long-form that people also won't read, but I can provide ways to contact me and if I stop being lazy, maybe set up disqus or possibly figure out some other way to integrate comments into a hugo blog. Or take the real software engineer approach and write a custom one full of amazing bugs just waiting to be exploited.

To force myself to blog for a little bit, and part of the reason "why now" for this blog, I'll be reviewing everything that comes out of a whiskey advent calendar. I received as a gift. So this blog will have at least 25 posts before it goes dark. Each post will have photos, tasting notes, and my general thoughts on the whiskey.

The tech stack for all of this is Hugo with the Clarity theme. I'm writing the posts in IntelliJ IDEA on Windows to a WSL Debian installation. The blog is version controlled with git and then I just rsync the public directory up to an Oracle Cloud Ampere instance where Caddy is serving the front-end.

I might try to figure out how to mirror post all of this to Urbit...