2022-09-03 Blongings

  `Blongings' is my new web/gopher log (or blog/phlog for short),
  accessible over http(s) and gopher at

    https://www.gnu.ca/~bandali/blog/
    gopher://gopher.gnu.ca/1/~bandali/phlog/

  In Blongings, I hope to share some of my thoughts and musings,
  and occasional replies to those of others.  My attempts at
  blogging so far have for the most part resulted in posts on
  technical topics.  With Blongings, though, I'm hoping to change
  that, and diversify what I write about, as the name might hint
  at.

  The name is directly inspired by `Blonging for Freedom', the
  blog of GNU friend and free software hacker/activist Alexandre
  Oliva[1].  In his blog[2], Alex writes about a variety topics,
  centred mainly around free software morals, ethics, and
  development.  Much like Alex, I also long for freedom, as well
  as peace, togetherness, and fairness.  I couldn't fit all of
  these (and other longings) in the title/tagline, so I'm going
  with just `Blongings'.  Oh, and I, too, have found myself
  writing long walls of text, be it posts, articles, emails, etc.
  So, similarly to Alex, I feel the name suits me and the blog
  well.  Sorry for the shameless `stealing', Alex, I hope you
  don't mind. ;-)

  [ Edit: I've switched the logs to a slightly different format
    than the one described in the next paragraph (though I'm
    preserving the formatting for this post for reference), and
    I've retired the single-file archive of all of the posts, at
    least for now.  If you're interested in having a single-file
    archive, feel free to let me know and I'll look into restoring
    it.  The file remains accessible at the below addresses, but
    it may be outdated and may not include the latest posts.
      https://www.gnu.ca/~bandali/blog/blog.txt
      gopher://gopher.gnu.ca/0/~bandali/phlog/phlog.txt    
    -- 2023-01-02 ]

  The overall format of blongings.txt is with inspiration from
  Taylor R. Campbell's blag[3], who you might know as the author
  of the excellent paredit[4,5] package for Emacs.  Blongings is
  written with GNU Emacs, and arguably best read in GNU Emacs
  also: thanks to the file-local values of `outline-regexp' and
  `page-delimiter' set at the bottom of blongings.txt, one can
  enjoy the conveniences of outline-mode (such as collapsing and
  expanding entries), as well as jumping to the previous or next
  entries using `C-x [' and `C-x ]'.  I have some ideas for a few
  other small bells and whistles as well, for an even better
  reading and writing experience, that I'll write about at some
  point.  They might make for a nice Emacs mode[6].

  Take care, and so blong for now.

  [1] https://www.fsfla.org/~lxoliva/
  [2] https://www.fsfla.org/ikiwiki/blogs/lxo/
  [3] https://mumble.net/~campbell/blag.txt
  [4] https://mumble.net/~campbell/emacs/paredit/
  [5] https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ParEdit
  [6] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Modes.html

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