The challenge to be viewed
By Otávio Vasques
It has been a while since I started thinking on building a webstie, a blog, a form of digital presence that is
out of social media or the closed internet. Since the release of GitHub Pages this desire exists and since this day
I involved myself in the development of multiple prototypes of websites with countless differente frameworks:
jekyll, hugo, react and svelte, using Vercel, Netlify... and now Zola. I can't remember how many times I deleted and
recreated my otaviocv.github.io repository.
Many of these attempts didn't come to life for various reasons, I didn't like the themes, I wished multilanguage support, katex, having nothing to say or just the embarassement of exposing yourself. After much internal thinking, noting that newer frameworks enable a much simpler and pratical website and letting go of an aesthetic ideal this website comes to the world.
It is built with Zola and the Duckquill theme, it has an interesting aesthetics, support to many languages and comments using Mastodon. One of the reasons of this introductory post is to test this integration.
Today, my necessity to have a space to speak is greater than never and I believe to be able to say things that matter to other people. The modern times required, also, a constant showcase and personal brand, a professional aesthetics, that emulates the form of producing content for social media. This website intends to be all these things besids also being a big index to all stuff I do.
Without artificial intelligence, I hope that here becomes a place of authenticity, learning and discussion. See you there!