December 6, 2023

Trying Mercurial

As a student – let’s say it’s around the year 2013 – I mostly used git as the favoured version control system because it was the de facto standard. There were folks using subversion, but that seemed to be very much a holdout from the before times, and was on its way out.

Despite this, I was never happy with git. The frequency with which you have to do violence to your repository, the fact that you use a --hard flag and weird notations like HEAD~ never sat well with me.

May 8, 2023

Intentions

I’ve never been much into writing, but occasionally it is useful to write something for the outside world and publish it in a semi-permanent way.

I don’t know yet whether this will become a blog or more of a repository and overview page for projects. I guess it doesn’t matter – my main intention for now is to not get too deeply into the tech of the blog itself. It is to be a tool used for other purposes. As such, I’m using Jekyll, which I already used for my last iteration of blogging in 2014/2015. This is a new setup because it was simpler to restart than to get the old code to work.