Some opinions, held with varying degrees of certainty.

What is that blog?

It responds to the vital needs of the entire society. This is a blog on the scale of our capabilities. Do you know what we are doing with this blog? We are opening the eyes of skeptics. Look, we say, this is ours, done by us, and this is not our last word!

Are we serious?

Not really. I'm just paraphrasing some movie dialogue.

So, why did we need that blog?

I had one post that was written some time ago, and it just required some finishing touches. As it was lonely, it required a companion.

What is the easiest subject to blog about?

Blogging! So here is the blog post about how that blog was made and deployed.

The place was needed to publish both of our blogposts. That one, and the original one that was the reason to start the blog.

Experienced bloggers advise programmers to reduce technical side of blogging to minimum, and use some out of the box solution. That way it could happen faster or happen at all.

It sounds like a good idea...

...but I am not following that path.

If not something easy, then what?

We are using Haunt static site generator written by Dave Thompson in Guile Scheme.

So, did we have to learn Guile Scheme?

Yes, I always wanted to learn Scheme better, and this was a good opportunity. I'm not an expert, but after solving some Advent of Code problems and porting Conor Hoekstra’s racket-algorithms to Guile, I'm not afraid of it anymore.

Is that blog the first page we deployed with Haunt?

No, I have Awesome Haunt Page as a sandbox and testing ground.

Was it helpful?

Very much so. I was able to collect examples rendered by Haunt, and then use them as a reference to render that collection of examples. Thanks to the examples themselves.

It sounds very meta.

That was the idea. Metacircualarity is very lispy.

It looks like it took some time to deploy that blog. Awesome Haunt Page was published in 2021, and now it is 2023.

Maybe experienced bloggers were right, and it would be faster to use some ready solution, but would it be as much fun?

Why is the form of that blog so weird?

It is based on the style of the Little books like The Little Schemer that I like very much.

Was it always planned to be like that?

No, originally it was supposed to be a normal blog, but then I read Peter Norvig's foreword to The Little Learner, and I was inspired to try something different.

Where is it hosted? How is it deployed? How is it built? What about the code that produces that awkwardly looking blog posts?

I will need to dedicate a separate post to that. It is a long story.

You know how it sounds, right?

We know, my precious. We know.