First Steps...
One of the main things I wanted to do with this site was simplify management and ultimately automate things.
Why?
I tend to come up with ideas that I think might be interesting at odd times and in weird (or, rather, not convenient for taking notes down) places.
So one of my goals with this site is ultimately to be able to use Google Assistant/Gemini to create a post for me and queue it for editing any time I think of something.
But For Today...
That goal is probably a long way off, and one of the core tenets of Engineering Stuff™ is making small changes and testing, rather than changing a bunch of stuff and then having to figure out what change didn't work.
So the first change here is to git-ify the site. I directed Pelican to generate the initial site, created the welcome post, and published all of that to the site in the last installment.
I then created a new private git repo (conveniently named parallel-42.com), synced the current folder to it, and pushed.
So now, whenever I create a post or make edits to things (which I'll be doing a lot of), it keeps everything in sync wherever I am.
Where Are You Now?
For now, I'm working on my laptop in the living room, typing this into Visual Studio Code (which has a great markdown preview feature), which is hooked into a Fedora 41 install running in WSL2.
That's the 10,000ft view, and I'll probably dig into that later, because I actually find it interesting.
So that's it for this post. I'm going to make some changes, test, and then sync them now.