# 2024-11-13 15:13:33 My old gopherspace at do.hedy.dev is now down as I no longer have access to the VPS I used to self-host that server. Luckily, it looks like rawtext.club is back, and it's now the perfect opportunity to revive this phlog by putting it on rawtext.club/1/~hedy/. The use of custom scripts and workflows is a beautiful thing. I wrote all of the scripts involved in the building and updating of this phlog (as well as my twtxt and gemini tinylog) ad-hoc, for my own use-case -- no vendor lock-in, no unexpected backward incompatibility from unsolicited updates. All I had to do to revive was update `export DEST_HOST=hedy@rawtext.club` and all my scripts work as expected. I have a `phlogit` script that read(1)'s for a title and creates a `phlot/_.txt` file. A `phloged ` that opens `phlog/**[^~]` in my editor. I use a vanilla `emacs -nw` set up with a few customzations in .dir-locals.el which I believe I have written about before. It enables a ruler at the top of the window, enables auto-wrapping to 65 columns while I type. It's interesting because the use of a *separate* editor (environment) for writing in this phlog is intentional -- instead of using my usual editor for coding (such as neovim), or Obsidian which I use for writing blog posts with markdown -- using Emacs with plain text allows my mind to be put into a particular mood best fit for the tone and content of phlog posts I want to write. Using neovim makes me feel as though I'm writing code, using Obsidian makes me feel as though I have to write beautiful prose. Here in vanilla emacs-nw, I'm just echoing my thoughts into monospace, where I only use the most basic line-editing shortcuts such as alt-backspace, ctrl-a, ctrl-k, ctrl-p/n, etc. (Yes, at some point in time I used nano for phlogging). The writing set up here putting my mind in a particular set also owes to the environment in which I would imagine people would read these posts. Gopher clients tend to display plain text documents in monospace. Sometimes I write shlogs for rawtext.club in a similar environment, and we read shlogs in the terminal, in a file manager or a TUI browser. It is this that allows me to typing these words before my cursor as if I'm also the reader of my own posts, but I get to decide what I am about to read -- live. *** I recently started blogging more frequently as I have found myself some free time on my hands and have decided to participate in a few writing challenges -- named writingmonth.org and 100DaysToOffload. This went surprisingly well -- I am prioritizing 60% quantity and 40% quality for now -- because this is the only way I can transition to writing regularly, as a habit. Expect more posts soon. Signing off for now~