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title = 'Blog Init'
date = 2024-08-10T15:41:20+02:00
tags = ['site-update']
description = 'Introduction to my new blog platform, explaining the motivation for moving away from Medium, Patreon, and Ko-Fi to a self-hosted Hugo-based blog with proper syntax highlighting and minimal overhead.'
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## What is this blog?
I started writing articles back in 2012, ranging from travel logs to programming tutorials in PHP. I enjoy writing texts here and then when I find (or don't find) certain things that might be interesting for others. All those articles I wrote in the past years were spread over different platforms, including self-written blog websites using flatfile storage...

A lot of these platforms, including Medium, Patreon and Ko-Fi are missing fundamentals like syntax highlighting without using screenshots or github gists, which can be very annoying considering the type of content I focus on. Other platforms have such a big overhead, that it got annoying updating, handling and keeping track, since I'm only doing such articles when I'm feeling like it.

This blog will be a revamp of everything. I'll focus on small, comprehensive articles about obstacles I come across, mixed in with some larger articles about passionate projects.

## Where can you find my old stuff?

The ones that are still online are scattered over [Medium](https://medium.com/@alexotter), [Patreon](https://patreon.com/alexottr) and [Ko-Fi](https://ko-fi.com/alexottr), usually being publicly accessible unless they include *behind-the-scene* content.

# Am I gonna maintain this blog?

I'll certainly try. I can't promise that it will be a steady upload but I will try.


Thanks for reading <3