Why a new site?

I’ve decided to move off of github pages. As convenient as it was, I just couldn’t stay there with the way that Microsoft was shoving copilot everywhere. Github itself has had issues since Microsoft took over, and even more since they committed to putting AI in everything, so a change was needed.

Why Codeberg?

I wanted to keep a similar workflow of writing in markdown and pushing to git to then serve a simple static website, and I felt that codeberg suit me best. Gitlab was also a potential option, as another open source git host, but I feel that codeberg is the type of organization that I want to support. The way I’ve set this up is with codeberg pages, which displays a static website based off of the “pages” branch of a git repo of your choice, in my case that’s my pages codeberg repo. In order to build the site, I write each page in markdown using kate or vim, and then build the html with hugo on my local machine, and push it to codeberg to be served to the web.

So you have a blog now?

Technically, yes! Also I had a blog before but didn’t really use it. Anyway, this is the first post. Hugo, like Jekyll, is blog aware, and the theme I’m using also supports blog posts, so I figured why not. I’m building a new site anyway, might as well give myself a place to put my more long-form thoughts right on the site, rather than using something like substack.

What is the blog about?

Honestly just whatever ramblings I happen to feel like sharing at any given moment. This could be about open source software, game design, random tech projects, language, artwork, etc. I have a lot of hobbies and I don’t feel like limiting myself to any particular topic.

With that out of the way, you probably want to know what I do. I post at various places on the internet, I run a Discord server called Titterpig Academy, and also it’s sister Matrix Space though it’s pretty quiet these days.

I design games which you can find over on my itch page or on the Transcendent Tapir home page. I’m making a webcomic called Nel about an alien girl coming to earth to find out who she is. I used to make content mostly about TTRPGs, but these days I just post whatever I feel like when I feel like it. Expect ramblings about open source software, privacy, art, language, game design, or whatever other hobby I randomly pick up.