# 0001 What Even Is This

> I will be writing here about tech, life, family, memes, and other random stuff that comes to my mind.

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- Category: personal
- Published: 2026-03-26T17:04:55+00:00
- Updated: 2026-06-19T08:30:00.481164+00:00
- Word count: 149
- Content hash: c23178aeaba30c3e9ef7e7fbc20b3fe5ae3c1aed6026c4c5fb6df4f5767d2a78
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## 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 Answered

- What is the main point of 0001 What Even Is This?

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## Body

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](https://aaronspindler.com/b/0002_cut_out_the_bloat/) in web development.

Feel free to checkout my X for more up to date posts.

## Links

- [cutting out the bloat](https://aaronspindler.com/b/0002_cut_out_the_bloat/) (internal)

## Related Posts

- [0002 Cut Out The Bloat](https://aaronspindler.com/b/tech/0002_Cut_Out_The_Bloat/)