AuguStory - The story of my blog

When Robert Birming, following Junited and JulyReply, called for contributions to AuguStory under the heading ‘The Story of your Blog‘, I thought to myself: If there’s one thing I can do, it’s write about my blog … but I found it much harder than I’d expected, simply because I’ve written about it so many times before. When I made a fresh start with blogging on kiko.io in September 2019 – initially just to publicly document technical matters for my own benefit – my very second post was about the creation of the blog itself. This turned into a whole series of posts called A New Blog, under which I have published 37 posts to date. Whenever I learnt something new about my current static site generator of choice, Hexo, adapted it to my needs or implemented something entirely new, I wrote a post about it. In addition, last year I began compiling the history, methodology and technology behind this blog in a Colophon. It currently consists of the sections Impetus & Technology, Hosting &…