Hello, welcome to my first blog post. I'm not sure how you got here, but welcome.

I thought I would at least give some background to why I started this post.

Background

I first came across this blog post thanks to a Telegram group chat I'm in. I was drawn in by the minimalistic design of the blog. It looked so clean and neat and modern.

I'm not sure what struck me, but I decided to look at that blog again, and I thought to myself: why not start my own blog? Admittedly, blogs have kind of fallen out of fashion these days¹, but I still keep a physical, written journal with me. This blog will essentially be an extension of my journal, that can support new formatting, and hyperlinks², and even images! So within a span of an hour, I signed up for a blog in this blogging platform, and here I am writing my first post.

Setting Up The Blog

I'm gonna dedicate a section here on how I created this blog with a custom domain, so that other people who see this will have a (hopefully) smooth process on how to do it.

1. First, register on mataroa.blog. I don't think I need to elaborate much on this, it's a very straightforward process.
2. Next, go to a domain registrar and purchase a domain name of your choice. I used namecheap, but other domain registrars will work just fine.
3. Once you purchased your domain name, go to the domain registrar's website and add an A Record to the DNS (at first I thought A Record was a typo, but its really called that) with the IP address indicated in your blog settings.
4. Enter your custom domain and you're good to go!

Purpose

So, what am I gonna do with this blog? I'll be honest with you, I'm not sure. I thought I'll use this blog to type out thoughtful, insightful mini-essays on whatever topic interests me, or document interesting and specific events in my life. I'll play by ear I suppose. I don't intend to publicise this blog, maybe I'll drop a link to some of my friends. As of now, this blog is simply an island among millions of websites on the Internet that may be discovered by a random stranger.

I hope that this blog will entertain you as much as I have writing this.

Be seeing you.