A Fresh Start

I once had a self-hosted blog, one that was built with Hugo, and it was a dream come true for me.

I also had some grand plans: Essay series. Newsletter. Freelance writing. But all of that had fallen by the wayside because of the hardships that came to my family... hardships that culminated in the death of my father last August 2024.

Now I could have resumed my plans... but much time has already passed, and it would be much easier for me to just start again with a clean slate. Besides, I'm no longer the person that I was just months before, and because God has provided for me someone I could talk to about my problems, I am no longer as driven by my bitterness as I was before. My old blog (and my old plans) all belong now in the past, and that is where they should stay.

Yet another fresh start. This is what this is. And here are the things I've done, the things I'm doing now, and the things I'm gonna do:

• I'm letting most of my old domains expire, including the one I used for my blog. But I'm retaining freedomwriter.net, because I haven't yet given up on that vision.
• I've deleted my LinkedIn account. Initially, I've only tried to make an overhaul, but there were some data I couldn't remove, and so I gave up and deleted my account instead.
• I've delayed my studies of Drupal (I was supposed to use Drupal to rebuild my blog). Instead, I have refocused on static websites and static site generators.
• I'm building my business (and myself) as a web developer. My plan is to offer development, hosting, and maintenance of static websites to corporate clients.
• I'm building the structure of said business, and I am also studying... a lot.
• I have at least two websites to develop for the business (plus lots of demo sites), and another one for my web developer blog.

As you can see, my friends, I have lots of things to do. I'm a web developer now, and yes, in case you're wondering, this is the new path that God has shown me! And so I am very thankful for this Listed blog, my new public journal, that has allowed me to just write — and not worry about anything else.