First commit

Posted on: 2026-08-30 by lbz
Tags: personal, blog, first

 

Well, here we are!

This is the first blog post on this website. Actually, this is not my first blog post on the internet, at all: I started my blogging career (kidding) in 2003 when, while working as network administrator for a local IT company, I started my own blog.

At that time the blogging landscape, in terms of platform to use, was shifting dramatically with major launches like Wordpress, Blogger (LiveJournal was alive from 1999), but I decided to code my own content as side project (it was ASP 2.0 and VBScript): admin dashboard, comment sections and some tricks to avoid spam (some of those are still used today, in the modern era). Sadly I do not own the domain anymore but I still have the codebase.

This website runs static files generated through a custom flow I coded, all built using Sphinx. So no fancy dashobards or plugins to update on a daily basis: just markdown files and a template. That’s all.

Anyway, I hope to write a lot more here: next step is to fill the project section and talk about something interesting in the next posts.