Thoughts on having a static blog

⤆ Back | 2025-09-23


I've never had my own proper blog that I can recall. I've used tumblr since 2009 - took a brief break after the NSFW ban in 2016, but came back after the twitter implosion - but never went into making long form, rambly posts like I see most others use their blog for. I guess tumblr counts as a "micro blogging" website so it's not quite a blog, but either way my posts on tumblr were always short and silly. Most of those posts don't exist anymore, I purged everything on my tumblr main blog from 2009-2015 for a variety of reasons.

But now it's 2025, and I've remade this website because I'm tired of places like twitter and instagram. And I'm wondering if maybe having a blog to pen my thoughts would be a nice thing to have. I don't think anyone will ever read them, truly. At the moment you can't even get to this page without knowing the URL because my splash doesn't link to the main area (gotta remember to slap that under construction banner on my main page). But there's still something comforting about the thought of it being out there for someone to read in the future.

When I was setting this up my immediate thought was "how am I going to manage this as it scales?" because a static website is something a little difficult to manage. I have this all set up so the header, navbar, and footer are all included HTML and my CSS is full of variables. So it is scalable, I built it that way. But I find it odd that was my first thought instead of just getting down to writing. I guess it's the nature of putting things on the internet that you manage yourself instead of a journal. I don't know where I'm going with any of this, but it does feel good to just write these things down without thinking too hard. Just to muse on my life and stuff and get things written down, regardless of the outcome. I'm re-learning how to express myself without the shackles of cringe or capitalism or any of those modern worries. It's hard and will be a journey, but I'm getting there, and this is a step in the right direction.

-Sky