Introduce yourself & your blog 🙂

DavidBlue · January 15, 2022, 5:48am

Introduce yourself & your blog - General - Discuss Write.as

I love the diversity already represented in this thread!

hello those who don’t know me - I’m David Blue!

My main blog on write.as is entitled “The Psalms” (which is… a dumb Bible joke and not meant to be actual malicious blasphemy or anything. it’s gotten very specific in the past 18 months or so, for better or worse.

I had the pleasure of chatting with former Community Manager (still resident & excellent blogger) CJ Eller about how discovering this platform and Markdown basically saved my life.
I was very proud to have my blog’s theme listed in the official themes directory though both the CSS and JS have changed a lot in the time since, so I’d suggest you use those latter links if you’d like to try it.

As a former, jaded, self-described “CMS nerd,” I believe there is something very poignantly special about the whole Musing Studio suite and have become more invested than I could’ve ever imagined in the wellbeing of these properties. That said, I would like to offer myself as a point of contact for support in two distinct aspects:

In the technical sense, I am not a certified web developer/designer in any sense, but I’d like to think myself familiar enough with these platforms and how they interoperate to call myself an authority. If anything else, if I can’t help you with your problem, I’ll know where to send you.
As a “soldier” for the “cause.” If you or someone you know needs convincing regarding the .as suite as a product, and you find yourself without the time/energy, call me! It’s in my self-interest to help it grow, and I can’t actually think of a better use of my time.

It might interest you to know that The Psalms is “written in public” via Git and this GitHub repository, which basically means that my entire process (including this very reply!) can be viewed/tracked in real time. Believe it or not, I did not know what Git was 18 months ago, and now I basically live on it.

So excited to see growth in the community! If you’d like to chat about any of the topics I’ve covered - or about anything, basically - here are my contact details one last time: