Hello World! :)

When I started using Instagram for coding content about two years ago my intention was to explain Computer Science topics in a fun and simple way, to make people without tech-background curious about tech and to find people who are as excited about nerd-stuff as I am. The idea was to provide enough information about a topic to make it possible for people to find out more about it by themselves (I mean...if they want to ;)). Because I don't have that much time in general (and because I'm already spending way too much time on Instagram, but that's a different story) I didn't want to write comprehensive guides or tutorials.

But I have the following situation more and more frequently: I spend about 30min taking a shitload of awful pictures of my laptop (in exactly two different angles, that's the maximum level of my creativity), another 10min for finding that one picture that isn't too blurry, another 30min to write a caption...And then comes my favourite part: about 1h (!!!) for desperately trying to squeeze the caption I wrote before into 2,200 characters. It's ridiculous.

So I thought "hey, that should be enough time to write a semi-good blog post instead" and here we are ;).

(And then there are all those other social-media/Instagram issues like bots, Instagram collecting a huge amount of personal data, fake accounts, people chasing likes...but as I said, that deserves an own post)

1. More in-depth content: more explanation, tutorials, details, background information, resources...
2. MORE CODE: sharing code(-snippets) with explanation
3. Different topics: on Instagram I post about more or less the same stuff all the time. Some of the topics I'm interested in aren't suitable for Instagram (e.g. because even after 1h of trying I couldn't squeeze them into a caption). So I hope to post about other (more or less) tech-related topics like 3D printing, electronics and tinkering, philosophical tech stuff, "nerd fashion", books, papers, games, computer history, abandoned places...here as well.

   Of course I'll still post about programming, Linux, CompSci and Maths (oh how I missed maths on Instagram...;))

4. A quiet place: Instagram is loud and chaotic and distractive (and also a bit scary from time to time). On this page I want to keep things simple, minimalist and yeah...quiet. That means less pictures, less fanciness, no bells and whistles.
5. Kati-esque: I often have the feeling that Instagram is just not like me or not right for me. Usually I'm not a social-media person (no Facebook, no Twitter, no Snapchat, no TikTok, gym, catholic church...). But for some reason I'm mutating into a every-detail-of-my-day-posting Instagram addict as soon as I open the app. So here I try to create a place that feels more like myself :) (for example I'm using the same colors as in my terminal and want to make it look like it a bit :D)

So in short: this is my personal anti-Instagram :'D

For now I'm able to:

• generate my project's html files from the corresponding org-files (and include that css stylesheet that took me hours to create ;))
• have a sitemap/archive for my posts (and only my posts)
• have a simple navigation bar at the top of all files

For the moment that's enough for me (or rather: that's all my nooby ass could accomplish on a Sunday evening ;)). In the future I'd like to add a few things, don't know what yet but I'm sure I'll notice what's missing as soon as I need it :D

Setting up the org-export options for it is really easy (give that you're able and willing to read...unlike me who tried to guess what the options do first). Basically you just have to customize org-publish-alist (either in your init.el or like me in a seperate file).

Here are my settings:

//vicarie.in/posts/blogging-with-org.html

//www.john2x.com/blog/blogging-with-orgmode.html

And the org-mode manual for html exporting:

//orgmode.org/ma