Back in Black

Back in black, I hit the sack
I’ve been too long, I’m glad to be back
Yes, I’m let loose
From the noose
That’s kept me hanging about
I’ve been looking at the sky
‘Cause it’s gettin’ me high

After 3 years of “waiting” for Octopress 3¹, I’ve decided I waited long enough. Today I (spontaneously) migrated my blog to a vanilla Jekyll setup and I tweaked a bit its appearance. I’m reasonably pleased with the result and I finally don’t have any excuses not to write.²

I realized recently that it has been over 10 years since my first blog post.³ I’ve started my humble writing “career” with Wordpress, then switched to Octopress, and now here we are. One thing never really changed, though - the quality of my writing. It was always abysmally bad, as were many of the topics I wrote on. It’s really fun to look back on all of this - I was reading some of my old articles, in the process of migrating the blog to Jekyll, and I couldn’t believe some of the things I wrote. I hope this means I’m getting wiser with age…

In the mean time I’ve started another blog, called Meta Redux. I plan to do most of my (serious) writing there, but I might write an occasional short article or two here as well. My rough idea is to use Meta Redux as a platform for my more creative writing, and to use (think) for random stuff, small tips, etc.

Anyways, lately I’ve had this burning desire to share so many thoughts and that really got me excited about writing. Let’s see if I’ll do better this time around, or I’ll simply fail one more time…

1. https://batsov.com/articles/2015/02/15/octopress-3-dot-0/ ↩

2. Well, there are always plenty of excuses. ↩

3. https://batsov.com/articles/2008/05/05/first-post/ ↩