Translated from the Chinese original.
In college I had a WordPress site hosted on Alibaba Cloud, where I kept my old posts. At a little over a hundred yuan a year, the price was acceptable. But after graduation, I had less and less energy for tinkering, and I couldn’t even publish a handful of posts a year. On top of that, the renewal price shot up to around 1,300 yuan. Thinking about that return on investment, I decided to shut the old site down.
But coding and writing are the easiest levers for ordinary people in our era to get their hands on, so I should still try to keep putting things out there.
As a lazy person, the precondition for me to stick with something is that I can keep the barrier to entry very low. Hexo is great, but for someone who only writes code occasionally, it’s still a bit too complicated, and it dampened my motivation to write.
I picked Gridea simply because it’s easy enough: there’s a client app, and I can start writing right away. That said, I’m not without concerns. The author’s last update was back in October 2020, and I worry that nobody will maintain it going forward.
But, anyway, write first and worry later.
I still plan to use this blog for tinkering content unrelated to work, and I’ll gradually migrate my older posts over here as well.
A good wind lends you its strength and sends you soaring into the blue sky.