I woke up today and found that this blog was still using Pure Blog, just as I left it. I wasn't surprised, really, but sometimes I think that blog gnomes sneak blog changes into my life while I sleep, so it's good to check.

Having spent too much time worrying about how to render different post types or short vs long content, I'm now trying the I Don't Care method. Everything is just a post. Let's see how that feels, Right now it feels liberating.

Spent a couple of days putting this blog together and now I don't feel like writing.

With each passing day, I move closer to using Pure Blog for baty.net. Kev as added a few convenience features and updates that make Pure Blog entirely capable of running my site. It's the content that scares me. Even though Pure Blog uses "standard" YAML front matter, baty.net has adopted a half-dozen of those standards over the years. Converting everything would be a chore I'm not interested in. But (and this is a huge but), what if I started fresh? GASP! I know, I know. I'm seriously considering it, though.

So, we're doing this again, eh?

I'm getting a little ahead of myself here. I keep reloading Pure Blog's github page to see if there's anything new. This morning, I saw the most recent commit was "2 minutes ago" so how's that for timing!?

The update added next/previous post links on each post. That was one thing I was missing, so I jumped the gun a bit and updated this blog. It involved a little customization, since the links are in the default post-meta.php file, which I'd customized earlier. Wasn't hard, but I wonder if I'm painting myself into a corner. Anyway, fun stuff.

I'm happy to report it's been a fairly productive day, so far. I have crossed off all of my chores and a couple of project tasks. Feels nice.

I tend to write a few types of posts: daily journals, longer posts, short notes, and photo posts. No blogging tool I've used has done each of these well. The closest I have so far is daily.baty.net. This is a journal post using Pure Blog.

This blog will probably be about blogging with Pure Blog most of the time, since it's why I made it. Maybe don't subscribe to RSS just yet :)

I tried changing the page colors here. I wanted the header to be a different color. CSS light/dark switching confuses me and I couldn't figure it out, so I reverted to stock.

LATER: I decided I wanted my own colors more than I want to make a dark version available, so we're all light, all the time now. At least the background isn't pure white, so good enough?