Just one static page

I've been blogging at neil-vass.com for a few years, but recently decided to try starting this second site. For more background, see Blogging about blogging, just this once over on the main blog.

That post ended with a summary of my aims for this new site:

So, what am I hoping to get out of this?
  • Get a blog setup that I'd be happier to use - and then switch neil-vass.com to use it!
  • Learn things
  • Have fun
Let's see how it goes…

A blog setup I'd be happier to use

There's every chance I'll conclude that the kind of setup I was already using was the right one - but I want to see the need for it. This might be a very long way round, but I'm planning to start from the very basics, and only add more tools as I realise what I'm missing, and see what an extra bit of complication might help me with.

Learning things

I'm expecting to encounter 3 different types of learning as I get to each topic needed to make this site:

  1. I used to know about this, but it's been a long time and I've forgotten
  2. I never knew too much about this to begin with
  3. Lots of what I did know is out of date, things have changed

As an example: last year I started learning JavaScript, and found all 3 of these reasons applied. Type 1 because it's been years since I used it, and lots of things are different from languages I'm more used to. Type 2 because I never used it all that much, or for anything very complicated - so I wasn't very expert even before forgetting things. And type 3 because JavaScript has come a long way in the meantime (there's so many improvements!). Surprisingly, it still didn't feel like I was starting completely from scratch, enough of what I remembered still applied to feel like a useful head start.

I might adjust this list of learning reasons if I realise something else fits better. Maybe there's some kind of standard list that applies?

I think I'll refer to these learning types lots of times, so I've repeated them on their own page.

Having fun

I'm expecting learning to be fun - I enjoy seeing how things work and it's satisfying to get better at things - but if any topic starts to feel like a slog I'm very prepared to back off and try something else instead.

The story so far

You're reading this on neil-vass-2.com so I've definitely made some progress on getting a new site in place! So far I have...