{"format_version": "agent-blog-post-v1", "title": "0001 What Even Is This", "category": "personal", "template_name": "0001_What_Even_Is_This", "post_number": "0001", "canonical_url": "https://aaronspindler.com/b/personal/0001_What_Even_Is_This/", "html_url": "https://aaronspindler.com/b/personal/0001_What_Even_Is_This/", "markdown_url": "https://aaronspindler.com/b/personal/0001_What_Even_Is_This/index.md", "json_url": "https://aaronspindler.com/b/personal/0001_What_Even_Is_This/index.json", "published_at": "2026-03-26T17:04:55+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-19T08:30:00.481164+00:00", "ai_written": false, "summary": "I will be writing here about tech, life, family, memes, and other random stuff that comes to my mind.", "takeaways": ["I will be writing here about tech, life, family, memes, and other random stuff that comes to my mind.", "I felt that most blogging platforms are very bloated and clunky, so I decided to make my own.", "I tried out Ghost, Wordpress, and Medium; which all were very clunky and difficult for me to implement exactly what I wanted.", "This whole system is open source and renders out based on html files that are in a specific directory.", "I get to write basically pure HTML, and out comes a blog post.", "I am not a writer, so please forgive me if this is hard to read."], "questions": ["What is the main point of 0001 What Even Is This?"], "outline": [], "links": [{"text": "cutting out the bloat", "url": "https://aaronspindler.com/b/0002_cut_out_the_bloat/", "kind": "internal"}], "related_posts": [{"title": "0002 Cut Out The Bloat", "category": "tech", "url": "https://aaronspindler.com/b/tech/0002_Cut_Out_The_Bloat/", "markdown_url": "https://aaronspindler.com/b/tech/0002_Cut_Out_The_Bloat/index.md", "json_url": "https://aaronspindler.com/b/tech/0002_Cut_Out_The_Bloat/index.json"}], "code_blocks": [], "plain_text": "This is my very first blog post. I will be writing here about tech, life, family, memes, and other random stuff that comes to my mind. I felt that most blogging platforms are very bloated and clunky, so I decided to make my own. I tried out Ghost, Wordpress, and Medium; which all were very clunky and difficult for me to implement exactly what I wanted. This whole system is open source and renders out based on html files that are in a specific directory. I get to write basically pure HTML, and out comes a blog post. How rad is that! I am not a writer, so please forgive me if this is hard to read. Speaking of bloat, I wrote more about this topic in my post about cutting out the bloat in web development. Feel free to checkout my X for more up to date posts.", "body_markdown": "This is my very first blog post. I will be writing here about tech, life, family, memes, and other random stuff that comes to my mind.\n\nI felt that most blogging platforms are very bloated and clunky, so I decided to make my own. I tried out Ghost, Wordpress, and Medium; which all were very clunky and difficult for me to implement exactly what I wanted. This whole system is open source and renders out based on html files that are in a specific directory.\n\nI get to write basically pure HTML, and out comes a blog post. How rad is that!\n\nI am not a writer, so please forgive me if this is hard to read.\n\nSpeaking of bloat, I wrote more about this topic in my post about [cutting out the bloat](https://aaronspindler.com/b/0002_cut_out_the_bloat/) in web development.\n\nFeel free to checkout my X for more up to date posts.", "word_count": 149, "content_hash": "c23178aeaba30c3e9ef7e7fbc20b3fe5ae3c1aed6026c4c5fb6df4f5767d2a78"}