Alvin's Notebook

Hello again: why I started this blog

2023-06-15 · meta

I have kept private notes for years, and they quietly saved me more times than I can count. The problem with private notes is that they rot: no structure, no dates, no pressure to finish a thought. So here is a public version.

The rules I set for myself: write about things I actually solved, keep no analytics, no comments, no JavaScript. If a post helps exactly one stranger, that is a bonus, not the goal.

Expect topics like Linux administration, my home NAS, small Go and Python tools, and the occasional hardware postmortem. The writing schedule is going to be irregular, because the alternative is not writing at all.

The site itself is boring by design: static HTML, one stylesheet, no fonts loaded from anywhere. Boring is a feature that compounds.