Title: Why do I write this blog?
       Author: Solène
       Date: 14 May 2021
       Tags: blog
       Description: 
       
       # Why do I write this blog?
       
       I decided to have a blog when I started to gather personal notes when
       playing with FreeBSD, while I wanted my notes to be easy to read and
       understand I also chose to publish them online so I could read them
       even at work.
       
       The earlier articles were more about how to do X Y, they were reminders
       for myself that I was sharing with the world, I never intended to have
       readers at that time.  I enjoyed writing and sharing, I had a few
       friends who were happy to subscribe to the RSS feed and they were
       proof-reading after my publications.
       
       Over time, I wanted to make it a place to speak about unusual topic
       like StumpWM, Common LISP, Guix and weird Unix tricks.  It made me very
       happy because I got feedback from more people over time so I kept doing
       this.
       
       At some point, I got a lot more involved in the OpenBSD community and I
       think most of my audience is related to OpenBSD now.  I want to share
       what you can do with OpenBSD, how it would be different than with
       another system, steps-by-steps guides.  I hope it helped some people to
       jump to OpenBSD and they enjoy it as well now.  At the same time, I try
       to be as honest as possible when I publish about something, this blog
       is making absolutely no money, there are no ads, I would have
       absolutely nothing to gain not being honest in my articles.  I value
       precision and accuracy, I try to link to official documentation most of
       the time instead of doing a copy/paste that will become obsolete over
       time.
       
       Speaking of obsolescence, I usually re-read all my texts (and it takes
       a long time) once a year, to check if everything seems still correct. 
       I could see packages that not longer exist, configuration syntax that
       may have changed or just a software version that is really old, this
       takes a lot of time because I value all my publications and not only
       the most recent one.
       
       I write because I have fun writing and I'm happy to make my readers
       happy.  I often get some emails from people I don't know giving me
       their thoughts about an article, I'm always surprised but very happy
       when this happen and I always reply to those persons.
       
       I have no schedule when I write, sometimes I plan texts but I can't get
       them right so I delete them.  Sometimes months can pass between two
       publications, I do not really care, I'm not targeting any publication
       rate, that would be against the fun.
       
       # Why not you?
       
       This may sound odd, but I wanted to write this text mainly to encourage
       other people to write and publish their own blog.  Why not you?  On the
       technical side, there are many free hosting available in the opensource
       community and you have plenty of awesome static website generators
       available nowadays.
       
       If you want to start the adventure, just write and publish.  Propose a
       way to contact you, I think it's important for readers to be able to
       reach you, they are very nice (at least I never had any issue): they
       could report mistakes or give you links to things you may enjoy on the
       same topic as your publication.
       
       Don't think of money, styling, hit rate, visit numbers, it doesn't
       matter.  The true gems on the Internet are those old fashions websites
       of early 2000 with many ugly jpg, wrong colors but with insane content
       about unusual and highly specific topics.  I have in mind the example
       of a website about a French movie, the author had found every spot in
       France where the movie has been filmed, he has contacted every cast in
       the movie even the most insignificant ones to ask about stories and
       gathered many pictures and stories about the making of the film.  None
       of this would ever happen in a web driven by money and ranking and
       visitors.