Installing…
With an old-school internet spirit and its self-hosted, self-managed dinky websites, there is always a temptation to venture off the beaten tracks and popular products for blogging. Whether it is managed or self-hosted (WordPress, Blogger, Medium, Substack, etc.), popular stacks or CMS, or popular operating systems for bare-metal hosting (Debian, Ubuntu, Enterprise Linux-like, etc.), I've chosen to use a very niche blogging platform on a very niche operating system: Chyrp-Lite on OpenBSD. It is always tricky when you use such niche products because it might require you to invest time into learning how to get it to work and to maintain it. It is understandable to wonder why spend so much time when you can use a managed solution or a popular stack that is easy to install and maintain. It depends on your goal: whether it is to spend more time learning how to install a website from scratch and how to maintain it, or spend more time being productive as a writer and delivering content. I am…