Dear ~club:

Did you successfully infiltrate the gopherhole? I didn't realize just how fun gopher can be, and it was really nice to have a tiny fraction of the feeling I got when I first learned basic HTML. I managed to write some Python glue to translate my Jekyll blog to a gophermap. My script doesn't support the Liquid templating that I sprinkle into some of my posts, and the links and images are still to places on the Web, but the majority of the content is there. I'm also looking for OC images of literal gophers to post there. If you have any, please send them to me.

Speaking of blogs, have you got one? I run one on my personal site and mirror it over here on ~club, and it's proven to be a nice place to put words. It's a cute little static site, and it's just as minimal and single-purpose as I want it to be. I don't even like writing that much, but there's something nice about getting some of my thoughts out somewhere.

This week, ~club, your challenge is to make a blog. Take that any way you want to (long-form posts with Jekyll, Hugo, et. al., microblogs with some other platform, homemade system, etc.). I've noticed that some of you have your own versions of blogs and microblogs running here, and I think that's great. In that case, your challenge is to update it. Make a new post, change up the theme, whatever makes you happy.

In your excitement, don't forget the ~club rules: don't run a server or do anything that takes up too much of any shared resource (disk, network, memory). Shoot for a static site with optional JS and you'll be fine.

Once you've got something set up, please let us all know by replying here with a link.

Happy blogging,

Bradley