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This really hit me — I spent a long time (several iterations) designing my perfect blogging static site generator, and wrote a few posts about my journey of creating the tool. After those few posts, I’ve had lots of ideas for new ones but haven’t pushed any to completion.

So I mostly just have a blog about creating the static site generator used to generate the blog...

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I did the exact opposite.

Signed up to dev.to in 2017 as a new years resolution to write a blogpost every week. Just started to write.

Now, I've written over 200 blogposts on my main blog, over 100 for other blogs, and make my main income from paid writing gigs.

> new years resolution to write a blogpost every week.

Going to try this in 2021. Thanks for the idea.

> Going to try this in 2021. Thanks for the idea.

Why not start right now? There is nothing magical in January the first. Next 5 minutes is perfect time for a new blog post, for example.

You are obviously correct, but I find that new years resolutions are an effective psychological vehicle for me personally.

"Procrastinate later — there's always tomorrow!"

What about starting now and start slowly by writing something like, “My year 2020”. :-)

Beware, this is only one of my new years resolutions that really worked, haha.

But good luck!

FWIW, your comment describes exactly how I will feel once I finish my ongoing Golang static blog site generator.

Sigh, I guess I should get back to my GitHub repo and fulfill my destiny.

Mine’s also done in go — link to my blog is on my profile, and here’s the generator if you’re curious:

https://github.com/jacobkania/mmssg

Very nice! Seems easy enough to use. I went overboard with the config.yml and custom templates on my side [0]. My goal is a Jekyll drop-in replacement. Btw, I love how your Contributing section resembles what I wrote in my Readme. :)

0 - https://github.com/petarov/nenu

Haha that’s funny, yeah! Yours looks pretty interesting too, I’ll check it out in more detail later!

I wrote my own static site generator for by blog, and it turned out to be enormously useful for a number of different client projects, so I don't regret spending many months of part time effort building the generator at all.

Ha! This is the exact post I want to see as I take a 15 minute break from developing a new personal blog to read HackerNews...

Luckily for me the learning experience has been worth it regardless if not a single person reads anything I post.

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