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He certainly doesn’t go out dressed as a bat, hunting clown-costumed criminals to beat up. He polishes bits. Obviously. While the outside world was doing outside world things, I was here in my home office — between the computer desk, the laptop desk and the drawing board — wrapping up the last configuration loose ends on the blog. An anorexic social life, as the true nerd manual dictates. But it was a productive night. And productivity deserves documentation. ...

In the previous post, I talked a big game, bragged about how I had managed to get the blog up and running almost perfectly. Bullshit. It was a beating. I was almost defeated by a stray slash in a markdown file. At least now I have at least one functional comment field — I think. It still needs testing in production. The first cold shower was pushing the blog live after the official commit and seeing that exasperating 404 error message. “Oh come on, now what? This never happened on Blogger…” ...

I had a simple goal: start a blog to share my technical adventures and misadventures involving Linux, free software and related subjects. I came up with a solid structure, an honest layout, did some research on platforms and that was it — I decided to host everything on GitHub. It seemed like a logical and natural path, since a blog about Open Source has to live on GitHub, right? Seemed right. ...