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"title": "Hello, World!",
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"description": "The obligatory introductory post for my new web site.",
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"content_type": "journal",
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"is_draft": false,
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"was_pushed": true,
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"date_pub": "2016-06-16T13:54:45.000Z",
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"date_upd": "2018-12-01T14:31:00-05:00",
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"short_code": "1f5f0",
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"tags": "blogging"
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}
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---
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So, after a few years of on-again, off-again [blogging](https://blog.itsericwoodward.com/) (in both [original](https://blog.itsericwoodward.com/2015/on-william-gibson-and-cyberspace) and [micro](https://blog.itsericwoodward.com/2016/cherish-your-impostor-syndrome-dont-trust-people-who-dont-have) flavors), coupled with staring at (and maintaining) a [half-completed projects site](https://site.itsericwoodward.com/), I got tired of having a split web personality and decided to squish it all together. This site is the result of that unholy union.
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I plan on doing a write-up later explaining the gory details of how (and why) I built it the way I
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did<sup><a href="#footnote1">1</a></sup>, but let me at least give you the quick, jargon-laden version: the site is built with [Node](https://nodejs.org/) (specifically an as-of-yet-unreleased custom library & CLI wrapped around [HarpJS](https://harpjs.com/)), which creates static pages out of [Markdown](http://commonmark.org/) and [EJS](http://ejs.co/) (templated to conform to [IndieWeb](https://indiewebcamp.com/) / [microformats2](http://microformats.org/) specifications), which is then compressed via various [Gulp](http://gulpjs.com/) plugins, and is ultimately served up through [nginx](https://nginx.org/) running on a [DigitalOcean](https://m.do.co/c/99e02989735d) droplet. And, lest I forget, lots and lots of emojis.
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It's all still very much a work-in-progress, but I'm pleased as punch with the results so far, and look forward to finishing both it and my 237 other projects (just probably not this week, month, or year).
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In the meantime, feel free to take a look around and check it out, and if you have any questions (or want to heap praise on me), hit me up [on social media or via email](/about.html).
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<p id="footnote1" class="footnote">
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<a href="fn-link1">1</a> - Especially since I've been publishing here for [over a month](/updates/2016/5/8/update.html) and am just now getting around to writing my "introductory" post.
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</p>
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