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What you're seeing is the official sconewrong blog. At time of writing the sconewrong.com domain is host to a rather basic, but beautiful, run time predictor.

I've been wanting to have a blog space of my own for a while - or rather put the effort into developing it so I can have it how I like it (we will see about the eh.. content).

Sure you could spin up a wordpress or tumblr or whatever is hot right now (medium.com?), but I don't want the ads, don't want the clunk, don't want to miss out on the sweat and tears.

That said I only have so much elbow grease to give, and so I'm not going to go as far as to develop a blogging platform from scratch that would be bonkers.

Instead I've gone the route of a blog-aware static-site generator. Essentially you provide a nested directory structure of markdown files and the tool generates the html in the theme you want with all the nice links/navigation thrown in.

As far as I'm aware the most popular of these static-site generators is Jekyll but this is written in Ruby, and although I expect to use these tools in mostly a black box fashion, I opted for a more familiar Python variant, Pelican.

True to the cause of a static-site generator, the output of Pelican, is well, static html. This means my current Python web hosting is overkill, but has some decent storage so here we are.

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