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+title: Hello, World (from Jekyll) (then from Hakyll)
+author: Chris Hodapp
+date: June 4, 2016
+---
+
+I started this post in February 2014.  Actually, I might have started
+it in July 2013 (while sitting in a Bruegger's Bagels on the same day
+that I met up with two people from Urbanalta in what would later
+become my full-time job, to be precise).  I really don't remember.
+
+Here goes another migration of my sparse content from the past 8
+(er... 10) years.  This time, I'm giving up my Wordpress instance that
+I've migrated around 3 or 4 times (from wordpress.com, then Dreamhost,
+then Linode, then tortois.es), and completely failed to migrate this
+time (I neglected to back up Wordpress' MySQL tables).  I still have
+an old XML backup, but it's such a crufty mess at this point that I'd
+rather start fresh and import in some old content.
+
+Wordpress is a fine platform and it produces some beautiful results.
+However, I feel like it is very heavy and complex for what I need, and
+I have gotten got myself into many train-wrecks and rabbit-holes
+trying to manage aspects of its layout and behavior and media
+handling.
+
+My nose is already buried in Emacs for most else that I write.  It's
+the editor I work most quickly in.  I'm already somewhat familiar with
+git.  So, I am giving [Jekyll](http://jekyllrb.com/) a try *(later
+note: now using [Hakyll](https://jaspervdj.be/hakyll/) instead.)*.
+Having a static site pre-generated from Markdown just seems like it
+would fit my workflow better, and not require me to switch to a
+web-based editor.  I'm going to have to learn some HTML and CSS
+anyway.
+
+(I phrase this as if it were a brilliant flash of insight on my part.
+No, it's something I started in July and then procrastinated on until
+now, when my Wordpress has been down for months.)
+
+*(And then procrastinated another 2 years for good measure.)*
+
+A vaguely relevant
+[issue](https://github.com/joyent/smartos-live/issues/275) just
+steered me to the existence of
+[TRAMP](https://www.gnu.org/software/tramp/) which allows me to edit
+remote files in Emacs.  I just did *C-x C-f*
+`/ssh:username@whatever.com:/home/username` from a stock Emacs
+installation, and now I'm happily editing this Markdown file, which is
+on my VPS, from my local Emacs.  For some reason, I find this
+incredibly awesome, even though things like remote X, NX, RDP, and
+sshfs have been around for quite some time now.  (When stuff starts
+screwing up, M-x tramp-clean-up-all-connection seems to help a bit.)
+
+I collect lots of notes and I enjoy writing and explaining, so why
+don't I maintain a blog where I actually post more often than once
+every 18 months?  I don't really have a good answer.  I just know that
+this crosses my mind about once a week.  But okay, Steve Yegge, you
+get
+[your wish](https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/you-should-write-blogs)
+but only because I found
+[what you wrote](https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/tour-de-babel#TOC-C-)
+about C++ to be both funny and appropriate.