jotting down my thoughts

so i've been thinking that i don't really want to post all the time on social media, but i actually really enjoy sharing my thoughts. just thinking them in my head doesn't feel the same, but i've also found that sharing my thoughts as they are on social media can be tiring in its own way.

i stumbled across thoughts.page a while back & thought it was nice, but i didn't want to have to deal with another site just to post things...

so after quite a bit of fumbling, i've figured out a simple-ish way to incorporate something similar on this site!

if you go to the front, you'll see my own version of a microblog set up for hugo...

it doesn't include any reblogs or replies, but i've included a like button because they're fun. i don't collect the number of individual likes though, nor do i get notified when people press the like button - it's just there because i think a little bit of interactivity can be fun.

i've also set it up so it only shows the latest posts, while older ones get archived off the site. since microblogging is something people usually do without too much thought (or at least that's how i do it haha), i've always found it kind of strange to have every single post available for anyone to see forever...

i'm not sure how much use i will actually get out of this, but i thought it'd be fun to try & see if it scratches the microblogging itch for me.

right now the setup is rather clunky - these are the steps i need to do for each microblog:

• create markdown file with date in file name
• write post in english & japanese
• regenerate hugo site
• upload site*

this is a lot more involved than just making a post on most microblog sites... i could probably automate more of it, but for now i will see how it goes.

*update: i've combined these two into one .bat action so this is actually pretty easy now!