Well, 2025 is off to one hell of a start, isn’t it? We’ve already had two new spaceships launching into orbit, the richest man in the world totally not doing a fascist salute at the inauguration ceremony of the new president of the US, even the announcement of the Nintendo Switch 2 (finally)!

Of course it all pales in comparison to the fact that wasp.dev now hosts my microblog, my Instagram replacement and my Goodreads replacement, all fully federated with the Fediverse and fully selfhosted on a fantastic OVH box where we (well, mostly Roberto) have finally set up a good future proof install of NixOS.

So I thought that it might be a good idea to keep going with the creative flow and maybe pick the blog back up as well, though of course being able to configure a couple of Nix flakes is a completely different level of effort than writing even one post. But then I remembered the #100DaysToOffload thingy that was making the rounds in my corner of the internet a couple of years ago, and reading the page made me realize that there’s one really good piece of advice in there.

Just. Write.

You see, over the years I’ve drafted a million posts for this blog, ranging from the technical today-I-learned to the novella-length “this is my Emacs setup and this is why you should care”, but they’ve never ended up being “good enough” to be here, because for some reason I thought this had to be some kind of shrine to perfect writing where everything is perfectly edited, super relevant for everyone and of course interestingly written. Which is, of course, why my only published post is a tutorial for changing Exchange Online calendar permissions, clearly.

So I decided that maybe it was time to actually write about stuff. After all I’ve just installed a billion different ways to publish content on my server, so I might as well have something to actually publish on it, right? And maybe those infinite drafts could actually be good enough if I just finished and posted them, instead of leaving them in the private repo behind this Hugo site - hosted on this same server, of course, on our Forgejo instance.

And hey, maybe I do have something to add to the conversation. It might be interesting for someone to find out how - or why, god forbid I write something not technical for once - I had to patch the Nix flake of Bookwyrm to have it work on the latest release of NixOS, or someone might even be interested in reading my ideas about, I don’t know, the state of the world, or the fact that Cory Doctorow is basically an oracle and predicted most of what is happening in the world 15 years ago, you know, stuff like that.

After all it’s 2025, and it is about damn time that we start taking back the monopoly that Big Tech and social media have on dumb, useless content, right?

So yeah, here I am. Maybe I’ll write 100 posts in 100 days. Maybe I’ll write 100 posts iby the end of 2025. Or maybe I’ll drop off after 15 posts, because God knows what will happen.

And you know what? That’s completely fine, because this is my space on the internet. And it’s about time I do something with it.

This is day 1 of #100DaysToOffload