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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>Bridzius.lt</title>
<link rel="canonical" href="https://bridzius.lt" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" />
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<style>
body {
font-family: monospace;
font-size: 1rem;
}
article p {
text-indent: 20px;
}
.hero {
position: fixed;
top: 0;
left: 0;
width: 30px;
height: 20px;
background: linear-gradient(
#0057b8 0%,
#0057b8 50%,
#ffd700 50%,
#ffd700 100%
);
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<span class="hero"></span>
<header>
<h1>Jurgis Bridžius - Home Office</h1>
<address>
<a rel="me" href="https://github.com/bridzius">Github</a>
<a rel="me" href="https://fosstodon.org/@bridzius">Fosstodon</a>
<a rel="me" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/bridzius"
>LinkedIn</a
>
<a rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS" href="https://bridzius.lt/rss.xml">RSS</a>
</address>
</header>
<main>
<article id="distractions">
<header>
<a href="#distractions"><h2>Distractions</h2></a>
</header>
<p>
There is probably no better way of expressing and preserving
thoughts than writing. I've wanted to document my ideas for
multiple years now. This turned out to be harder than
expected: my brain decided it wouldn't let me write and
instead drift away into doing arbitrary tasks. In the end -
this paragraph took me 4 and a half years to write.
</p>
<p>
When I put my mind to it - everything can become a
distraction. I had started the same way back then, in 2016:
in front of a computer, looking at an "index.html document"
, when I realized, "I want colour!". And not just any colour
- the background and font colour was supposed to change on
every reload, but the contrast should still be correct and
everything was still supposed to be legible. 3 months of
looking into it to ended up in a mostly working website and
I learned a lot about luminance, HSL and different hues. But
no text. Also - I was tired of the whole blog idea and just
went away for some time.
</p>
<p>
Fast forward two years or so - I was back. Armed with new
explosive enthusiasm to start all over, I was now ready to
skip all the distractions and dive straight into writing!
Unfortunately, 2018-2019 were the years of the static site
generator: Jekyll, Hugo and Gatsby were big, Scully for
Angular (big Angular user here) was released and various
other examples were taking the community by storm,
empowering writers to easily scaffold and format their
content. Great products like Medium were quickly gaining
traction, which threw out the whole idea of hosting your
website or writing code altogether! This would have been the
perfect time to skip all the styling, jump straight into the
content and finally start the blog writing journey...
</p>
<p>
Nope! I live and breathe corporate. I wake up feeling like
an enterprise, and go to sleep thinking like business. "Not
Invented Here" (more about this in the future) flows deep
within my veins: if I am to use something, I better
understand how it works! This lead down a Wonderland-like
rabbit hole and ended up with
<a
href="https://github.com/bridzius/blankpage"
target="new_page"
>blankpage</a
>
- my take on a static site generator. Very basic, barely
works, but fully mine. This was a great distraction for a
year or so of off-and-on again development. Tinkering with
code styling, implementing Markdown support, making it
somewhat pluggable (if it's worth doing - it's worth
overdoing) were great companions for early morning
espressos. Notice, how none of this involved writing any
posts yet. In the end - it sort of worked - maybe it will
even work better in the future - but I was still post-less.
Fast forward one or two more years.
</p>
<p>
Productivity hacking is all the rage now. We are taught to
wake up early (check), get at least some exercise in every
day (yup), create notes and reminders for the day and close
them during the day (been there) and many other things to
get those little wins while we're stuck at home for weeks on
end. For me - the perfect time to start writing. This time -
no styling, no static site generation, no templates. Just
me, the keyboard and an "index.html".
</p>
<p>Here we go.</p>
<footer>
Published
<time datetime="2022-10-06">October 6th, 2022</time>
</footer>
</article>
</main>
<footer>
<hr />
This website is found on
<a
href="https://github.com/bridzius/bridzius.github.io"
target="github"
>Github</a
>
</footer>
</body>
</html>