A new start...

So I wanted to try to get back to blogging again. I've been feeling the urge for some sort of creative outlet and been thinking on how to get it out.

Most days I barely have the mental energy to even post anything to social media, never mind sit and write paragraphs for a blog post.

Yet, the urge to do something remains strong...

So I decided to resurrect this blog. I've wiped (albeit not entirely deliberately) the old site that was here, but as it only had a handful of posts before being abandoned back in February, it's not a huge loss.

I'm reluctant to even touch my main blog over at nerdrooted.com these days.

Wordpress is an unwieldy beast of a thing, and the management of the project have let themselves down a huge amount recently, what with the Wordpress CEO doxxing customers of a rival service that they weren't happy with. I mean, wth?

I've come to much prefer simpler more minimal approaches such as Publii with its static HTML files, deployed to a Netlify instance. Which sounds more complex than it actually is, but once it's setup it's pretty much just fire & forget.

I've also got my files for Publii now hosted on my cloud storage, so when I rebuild my PC at the weekend, I won't "accidentally" wipe the site again. Whoopsie.

So yeah, I'm probably going to shutter the Wordpress site at some vague point in the not too dim and distant future, having backed it up and maybe converted it over to Publii as well, and deploy it to another Netlify instance and link it up here. That site goes back 10 years in February of 2025, and there's a lot of old content there that I'd hate to let go of completely.

Going forward...

I'll probably stick to Publii and Netlify. Both are actually completely free, certainly for the volume of content and traffic I'll likely be getting.

Content-theme wise it'll be a mixture of random crap essentially, which will obviously include some WoW posts, but I think my days of posting exclusively about World of Warcraft might be done.

Speaking of WoW...

I still love playing the game. Dragonflight was an excellent expansion, and The War Within is very good so far too. I'm still playing at a Cutting Edge level, and we're currently working on Mythic Silken Court, the penultimate encounter in Nerub-ar Palace.

Right now though, I'm feeling a bit of ennui with the game, despite still enjoying it, which sounds weird.

Maybe because I'm largely finished with gearing, after a mammoth mythic+ marathon over the weekend, where I got caught up on missing over 200 gilded crests, then proceeded to get capped again on Weds by running another 8 dungeons, meaning in the past 5 days I've earned over 300 gilded crests. Bear in mind each m+ dungeon over a key level of 8 only rewards 12 crests if you time it.

That's a LOT of mythic+ runs...

I've gone from being the worst-geared raider, as I was off on holiday and had degree work to do, so hadn't been as focused on gearing for a couple of weeks, to one of our best. I'm currently just shy of 637 iLevel, which is getting pretty damned close to the maximum attainable (639).

So I may be feeling a touch of burnout with the game, which is kind of understandable, so I'll probably raid-log for the remainder of the week. Or just do some more of the Anniversary event stuff, which has been ok. I've gotten all the T2 mogs already, so it's now just doing the likes of the Detective storyline and the Fel Cycle questline.

Finishing off...

I'm hoping to keep up with this, again. I like getting my words out of my brain and down "on paper". It's cathartic. And maybe I should care less about metrics, page views, reader numbers, engagement statistics etc, and just write whatever crap pops into my head...

Not that I cared much about them to begin with, but it used to matter that someone was getting value out of this besides just me! Perhaps even that minimal level of investment in numbers should just be a thing of the past too. Even if it is just effectively me typing into the void. And given Publii has no method of commenting natively built in, what with it's static HTML output, that's probably for the best!