I’ve been thinking about starting a blog for years, but always got caught in analysis paralysis deciding where and how to do it. I finally put some time into making decisions and actually putting something of my own together while participating in Recurse Center. As a high-level goal, I wanted a simple way to turn Markdown on my computer into a website and blog. Initially I thought writing my own static site generator could be an enjoyable project, but after scoping out what the project would consist of, I realized it would be a distraction from many other goals like writing words and learning Rust with others and learning about machine learning....