First Post or why does this blog exist?

Update 2026-03-09: Added Mastodon comments. Explained Cloudflare hosting. Fixed lots of typos and mistakes.

As the title says, this is my first post, so ugh... Hello, how are you?... In addition, this is also the post that explains the reason this blog even exists. The answer to this question is pretty simple: I've always wanted a personal website. First, because I was inspired by the concept of an indie, decentralized and communal web¹, thus I created a digital garden of my own, where I can centralize everything about me and share on other platforms. The second reason is that I often read and write about things, and I thought a blog could help me direct this productivity energy toward something useful for society (or maybe just entertain one or two people).

Why the Kanagawa Wave in the navbar?

I wanted a logo to represent myself and once one of my friends got me a collar picturing the Wave—I love it—so I adopted it as my own, at least for now. If you don't know what I'm talking about, see the picture below and the article about it.

Also the image you see on the navbar is from jakeLoris.

How this website was built?

I decided to use Zola in combination with Pico CSS, because I like how Pico's defaults look (and hate CSS). To be more specific, I manually downloaded the library and adapted it to Zola, because Zola uses the grass crate, and it doesn't support the CSS updates of Pico's 2.1.0 version (Yes, it's a rabbit hole). As a hosting option, I chose Cloudflare, first because of the built-in support for Zola and the free 'Green Hosting Badge' (lol).

Mastodon Comments

If you go to the end of this post, you can see a section and a button that allows comments to be loaded from Mastodon and the Fediverse. The code and part of the style were taken from Veronica Olsen and Carl Schwan's implementations. If you have a Mastodon or any Fediverse account, leave a comment to show support.

My inspirations

To say I thought about all the features in this website would be a lie (and a very bad one). I took inspiration mainly from a friend from university, Gabriel Souza and a German blogger, Marcus Obst. I tried to give my own face to this blog and I think it still needs improvements, but it's doing okay.

What to Expect if You Subscribe

To be honest, I don't expect to post very often, my ideal goal would be a post every month, but with college and other obligations, I don't know if it's going to work. Anyway, I'll try to be consistent.

About subjects, I'll write about what I like. This includes software development, anime, games, philosophy, who knows... I also plan to post about projects and presentations. You can also send me suggestions by email.

Conclusion

Feel welcome, read some posts, subscribe through the feed, and thank you for taking the time to read something from me 😄.