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    <title>meta &amp;mdash; robert xu</title>
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      <title>this is very random, but i&#39;ve been thinking of starting a podcast.</title>
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      <description>&lt;![CDATA[this is very random, but i&#39;ve been thinking of starting a podcast.&#xA;&#xA;i wonder if this is so that i can get out of writing blog posts in favor of just vocalising thoughts.&#xA;&#xA;what would the podcast be about, i guess? probably about stuff on my blog. still debating.&#xA;&#xA;maybe i&#39;m just being lazy.&#xA;&#xA;meta&#xA;&#xA;a href=&#34;https://remark.as/p/robxu9.com/this-is-very-random-but-ive-been-thinking-of-starting-a-podcast&#34;Discuss.../a]]&gt;</description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>this is very random, but i&#39;ve been thinking of starting a podcast.</p>

<p>i wonder if this is so that i can get out of writing blog posts in favor of just vocalising thoughts.</p>

<p>what would the podcast be about, i guess? probably about stuff on my blog. still debating.</p>

<p>maybe i&#39;m just being lazy.</p>

<p><a href="https://robxu9.com/tag:meta" class="hashtag"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">meta</span></a></p>

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      <pubDate>Sat, 06 Jul 2019 04:26:09 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>given recent events, i&#39;m going to try to encourage myself to write more.</title>
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      <description>&lt;![CDATA[given recent events, i&#39;m going to try to encourage myself to write more.&#xA;&#xA;it gives me a structure for me to frame my thoughts around, and helps me to better shape my viewpoint on the world, whether through my lens or others.&#xA;&#xA;i have a list of topics linked from my front page that i&#39;d like to write about sometime. if there&#39;s something that you&#39;d like me to write about, let me know.&#xA;&#xA;#writing #meta #life&#xA;&#xA;a href=&#34;https://remark.as/p/robxu9.com/given-recent-events-im-going-to-try-to-encourage-myself-to-write-more&#34;Discuss.../a]]&gt;</description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>given recent events, i&#39;m going to try to encourage myself to write more.</p>

<p>it gives me a structure for me to frame my thoughts around, and helps me to better shape my viewpoint on the world, whether through my lens or others.</p>

<p>i have a list of topics linked from my front page that i&#39;d like to write about sometime. if there&#39;s something that you&#39;d like me to write about, let me know.</p>

<p><a href="https://robxu9.com/tag:writing" class="hashtag"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">writing</span></a> <a href="https://robxu9.com/tag:meta" class="hashtag"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">meta</span></a> <a href="https://robxu9.com/tag:life" class="hashtag"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">life</span></a></p>

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      <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2019 04:23:30 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>for those who are observant, i&#39;ve moved to write.as.</title>
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      <description>&lt;![CDATA[for those who are observant, i&#39;ve moved to write.as.&#xA;&#xA;i really really wanted to keep using hugo, but there were two issues that arose during my usage:&#xA;&#xA;i used to keep everything on my macbook pro, especially at university. that doesn&#39;t happen anymore - i use a windows computer (mainly for gaming) at home and that laptop is relegated to light browsing.&#xA;&#xA;i tried to solve that by using forestry.io, but honestly motivation on trying to upgrade hugo without breaking my theme constantly (this was an issue a couple of times) was rock bottom.&#xA;&#xA;so i&#39;ve abstracted that out. honestly, i was thinking of hosting something like ghost, but i didn&#39;t want to deal with the issues of self-hosting + the price.&#xA;&#xA;i tried svbtle, but lack of custom pages + ssl on custom domains was a dealbreaker for me. i really liked their ideas to posts flow, and i wish write.as had a similar ideas page which i could create posts from (they have a notebook mode, which is nice, but that&#39;d end up on another blog).&#xA;&#xA;so here we are. let&#39;s see how it goes this time. maybe, just maybe, this will encourage me to write enough. i hope.&#xA;&#xA;#encouragement #meta #write.as #motivation&#xA;&#xA;a href=&#34;https://remark.as/p/robxu9.com/for-those-who-are-observant-ive-moved-to-write-as&#34;Discuss.../a]]&gt;</description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>for those who are observant, i&#39;ve moved to write.as.</p>

<p>i really really wanted to keep using hugo, but there were two issues that arose during my usage:</p>
<ol><li><p>i used to keep everything on my macbook pro, especially at university. that doesn&#39;t happen anymore – i use a windows computer (mainly for gaming) at home and that laptop is relegated to light browsing.</p></li>

<li><p>i tried to solve that by using forestry.io, but honestly motivation on trying to upgrade hugo without breaking my theme constantly (this was an issue a couple of times) was rock bottom.</p></li></ol>

<p>so i&#39;ve abstracted that out. honestly, i was thinking of hosting something like <a href="https://ghost.org/">ghost</a>, but i didn&#39;t want to deal with the issues of self-hosting + the price.</p>

<p>i tried <a href="https://svbtle.com">svbtle</a>, but lack of custom pages + ssl on custom domains was a dealbreaker for me. i really liked their ideas to posts flow, and i wish write.as had a similar ideas page which i could create posts from (they have a notebook mode, which is nice, but that&#39;d end up on another blog).</p>

<p>so here we are. let&#39;s see how it goes this time. maybe, just maybe, this will encourage me to write enough. i hope.</p>

<p><a href="https://robxu9.com/tag:encouragement" class="hashtag"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">encouragement</span></a> <a href="https://robxu9.com/tag:meta" class="hashtag"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">meta</span></a> <a href="https://robxu9.com/tag:write" class="hashtag"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">write</span></a>.as <a href="https://robxu9.com/tag:motivation" class="hashtag"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">motivation</span></a></p>

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      <pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2019 04:11:56 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>it feels like it&#39;s been forever since I last blogged; even moreso when you...</title>
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      <description>&lt;![CDATA[it feels like it&#39;s been forever since I last blogged; even moreso when you actually count the years. life keeps moving fast paced and when everything&#39;s just coming at you and trying to wear you down, you spend all your energy trying to withstand the tide; and then where&#39;s the motivation to blog? stress release was better served then by reading, gaming, or just - sleeping.&#xA;&#xA;but recently i&#39;ve had some major life changes, and it always seems like i blog whenever something major happens. in a way, my life is very boring if i&#39;ve found nothing to blog about; but that was actually because i could adequately explain what has happened in my life and that suited me fine.&#xA;&#xA;recent events, however, have left me utterly speechless and reaching futilely for words which i couldn&#39;t define. trying to form a sentence left me floundering in a word puddle that, frankly, didn&#39;t make sense and just irked me, because I thought, I used to be better than this! but it turns out no, not anymore, because I haven&#39;t written in ages.&#xA;&#xA;so when these recent events hit, i was kind of at a loss for words. and it&#39;s been extremely hard for me to even begin to figure out what was happening. so i&#39;m going to try to motivate myself more to blog more; to speak more; to write more clearly and contextualize what i could not before.&#xA;&#xA;hopefully it&#39;ll work.&#xA;&#xA;#beginnings #meta #life #events&#xA;&#xA;a href=&#34;https://remark.as/p/robxu9.com/it-feels-like-its-been-forever-since-i-last-blogged-even-moreso-when-you&#34;Discuss.../a]]&gt;</description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>it feels like it&#39;s been forever since I last blogged; even moreso when you actually count the years. life keeps moving fast paced and when everything&#39;s just coming at you and trying to wear you down, you spend all your energy trying to withstand the tide; and then where&#39;s the motivation to blog? stress release was better served then by reading, gaming, or just – sleeping.</p>

<p>but recently i&#39;ve had some major life changes, and it always seems like i blog whenever something major happens. in a way, my life is very boring if i&#39;ve found nothing to blog about; but that was actually because i could adequately explain what has happened in my life and that suited me fine.</p>

<p>recent events, however, have left me utterly speechless and reaching futilely for words which i couldn&#39;t define. trying to form a sentence left me floundering in a word puddle that, frankly, didn&#39;t make sense and just irked me, because I thought, I used to be better than this! but it turns out no, not anymore, because I haven&#39;t written in ages.</p>

<p>so when these recent events hit, i was kind of at a loss for words. and it&#39;s been extremely hard for me to even begin to figure out what was happening. so i&#39;m going to try to motivate myself more to blog more; to speak more; to write more clearly and contextualize what i could not before.</p>

<p>hopefully it&#39;ll work.</p>

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      <pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2019 01:50:19 +0000</pubDate>
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