My First Blog (´∀`)

Welcome to my first ever blogging website

Hi there, I am Alok, an undergrad student at IIT - Madras, currently diving deep into learning about different Cybersecurity tools and explore DevOps.

Now you may ask~ “What do I need a blogging website for?”

• First of all, lets go through how am I blogging this right now. {link to the workflow section of this note}
• To make writing into a habit ~
• Significantly improving my typing speed.
• To share my ideas and log it for my future self as a diary of memories.
• The ease of just taking usual notes on Obsidian and deploying it to a static beautiful website sounded great to me :)

• Because this project was just fun!

What’s the Workflow for this Blogging Website?

1. The website locally linked to the my Obsidian on my system (Arch btw) #dotifles
2. Every time i need to add some new data for my blog, I can simply open Obsidian and add a new file with my thoughts that I want to share.
3. Once I am done doing that, I can run a script that syncs my local obsidian folder to the Gitlab repository where I have my code for the blogging site.
4. The site is based on Hugo - The world’s fastest framework for building websites. and i am using the inbuilt theme #mention (will be redoing the entire structure on my own when I get some time).
5. Once the changes are pushed to Gitlab - I have setup Actions which will create a new branch for the Deploy.

Gratitude ~ o(>ω<)o

First of all - thanks! If you have read so far and my newbie way of writing has lead you to stay on this page for a minute ><!

At the end of this first ever page of the Journey that this Blog will see - I would like to state my current goals:

• Deploy this blog. XD
• Revision for finals at my college.
• Get active on Twitter / X.
• Build a Portfolio when I have time to do so.
• Flash Graphene OS or some other Privacy driven ROM on my Secondary Device (BND AL-10)
• Update Dotfiles of Arch Setup and add options to easily use EMOTICONS ^^!

Conclusion

This is it for this vlog, i might edit some sections in future if there is a need to. See you in the next part - (( _ _ ))..zzzZ

You get to see my Gnome setup on Arch for now (I am planning to reinstall Hyprland and configure it from scratch {AGAIN}).

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