I’ve had so many abandoned and blogs over the years, so many thoughts abandoned and eventually lost, blowing away on the digital winds, unable to unify.

As I write this, there’s a temporary blog made with a drag-and-drop GUI website builder tool at my domain, strivenword.com. That blog is being replaced by a static site blog with [Pelican](https://getpelican.com/), a Python-based ssg.

By ”being replaced” I mean ”already done... but....” which is a pretty normal final resting place for a lot of my stuff. I have the static site locally and in version control; I have ported over the posts that are currently up on the GUI website; I have added in some of my old writings over the years that I’ve been able to find. I’m simply using the basic default theme in Pelican. This theme allows any CSS file to be specified in the configuration, allowing simple single-file, element-selecting CSS frameworks to be simply dropped in. So, I’m using one such framework suggested by the author of this theme, Tufte CSS.

I‘m really happy with Tufte CSS. It’s the perfect style for me, since I‘m also a designer by schooling; it’s both elegant and logical. I really appreciate the aesthetic of the dark theme. And it almost just works.

Almost. I need to add a navigation to be able to switch through the different categories that I‘m using. And that required some structural hacks. And structural hacking inspired me to refactor the TufteCSS file into a project using the Stylus CSS preprocess, because I spent a long time learning and using Stylus in previous web projects long abandoned (including a previous single-page version of my strivenword.com homepage).

And I‘m even making progress. But progress has become so slow and uncertain that I‘m danger zone of abandoning and losing it, since it‘s never going to be part of my day job or even my most pressing hobby project.