This post, as the first one for this site, is just another one of my attempts to start writing blogs again. This time I’m using Hugo and GitLab Pages. According to some people they are the perfect tools for programmers to start writing. According to my experience so far they are not really user-friendly, probably because I’m not a programmer.

But I do a lot of programmer things during my daily job: I search and copy random strings from esoteric places, paste them to my dark-themed terminal, put my hands together and pray to the machine god. Somehow most of my problems got magically solved. I collected lists of these spells with various note-taking apps, but sometimes they are not very accessible. Once a server I configured two years ago suddenly died, and I realized that the spells needed for its resurrection were locked behind 2FA passwords in an app that my company no longer uses.

Hence there is the need for an very open but also very personalized place, and the funny name of this blog: Grimoire. It’s a funny word I just learned from Google:

The term grimoire is a general name given to a variety of texts setting out the names of demons and instructions on how to raise them. Effectively a grimoire is a book of black magic, a book on which a wizard relied for all the necessary advice and instruction on raising spirits and casting spells.

The fact that I don’t even know how to pronounce it makes it perfectly suitable for this tiny corner of the Internet. Yes, it’s just going to be another online notebook with not very original content, to make it easier for me to copy and paste commands. If it happens to helps one more person to finish some work without selling their soul to the Omnissiah I’ll be really, really happy.

Last modified on 2021-09-20