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  • Anyways
  • Its rants all the way down
    • Reasons why I think I didnt regularly maintain my blog
      • the usual
      • devil is in the details
• Procrastination ?
• Hardware related pains
  • You have to do all those things? Why though that seemes like such a-
  • So ? what do ?

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Oh boy,

Guess you could say i broke my promise of regularly updating my blog eh …

I feel like i keep saying this but dont actually act out on it

also feels like an extremely common trap which makes me wonder …

Anyways

I really do want to keep this thing updated, but for various reasons that i hope i will discuss i keep falling out of it

Its rants all the way down

Oh BOY.

Reasons why I think I didnt regularly maintain my blog

the usual

procratination, perfectionism, so on and so forth

devil is in the details

I suppose its easy to just call it procratination/perfectionism and get over with it.

But I want to dig a bit further, root causes and whatnot.

Procrastination ?

A lot of things happened as of the last post, most not important.

But some kind of were.

I wanted to write blog posts about those, but I wanted the posts to be informative still, so usually when I would have an idea to write a post I would hesitate to start right away and instead decide to ‘sit on it’ for a while, because who knows if I got a neater idea to incorporate into the post making it even better still ?
and another idea would inevitably crop up, and take a significant portion of the planningEnergyRessources I allocated for the blog in general
and another one …
and another one …

and nothing would get written ..

it seems really silly, but there ya go, hell I even thought to review this damn post to see if its good.

It usually comes up as this very innocent will to make things as clear as possible, to make the posts as accessible as possible, so you make a tweak here, a tweak there, and then it balloons up to a nightmarish hell the maintenance of which is a pain.

Hardware related pains

This might seem silly as well, (most of these things do), but another part is that the context switching price messes up with the perception of effort needed to get on with it (whatever it means in this context), so EVEN IF I become somewhat satisfied with the idea for a post, pulling up another laptop to write up a post and then checking it for typos and then pushing it was enough of a pain to repulse me.

You have to do all those things? Why though that seemes like such a-

I know, I dont even know what led me to set up such a severely suboptimal system.
The fact that I thought that I’ll be using this machine more often
PLUS
The fact that I had problems with running Virtual Machines on my “"”main””” machine (VMWare sucks, yay for Virtualbox) ¹

PLUS
The biggest factor of them all : the dreaded SUNK COST FALLACY

So ? what do ?

First of all, I set up a VM (it reminded me of this whole business anyway), I will be transfering my dotfiles there, to reproduce all hacks/lifeProTips aliases and bash stuff and so on.

Second of all, I might do some other jekyll theme thingy to be able to have pagination and some other M E T A- maintenance shenanigans.

Third, im thinking of either starting another blog where ill be putting my thoughts however they come or something like that …

So, reader, I hope I have convinced that this is the last time I don’t regularly update my blog.

you believe me right?

Right?