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.

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.