The frequency of blogging

hello@mikebell.io (Mike Bell) — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 09:14:27 +0000

The frequency of blogging is directly tied into how work is going, what my physical health is like and what my mental health is like.

At the moment work and my mental health suck so I’ve just not been able to put as much effort into blogging. I currently have the following posts that are in some state or another (in no particular order):

I’ve ditched Github for my own forge
Bilateral Pulmonary Embolism - One Year On
RPI Zero 2W and Hifiberry
You should get your own code forge
End of Year State of my Homelab 2025 Edition
AI is coming, I hate it

Thing is the words are there in my head I usually think them out when I’m trying to sleep at night but they don’t flow as well between hands and keyboard as they do when I think them through.

I’ve recently made a few changes to the blog yay for Hack font and posts being full width. I’d like to go a bit further and change the colour scheme but it’s beyond me at the moment. My ultimate goal is to have it reflect whatever scheme I’m using in my IDE (currently Tokyo Night).

I’d love to streamline the creation of posts as well, currently I write the draft in Joplin which is synced across all my devices so I can tinker anywhere but then I have to create a new file and push it to git for it to publish. If I could automate that step I’d be happier. The temptation to build my own CMS is quite high! I think the solution is a Joplin plugin or maybe even moving away from Hugo.

Hopefully this post will break the drought.

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The frequency of blogging