feat: custom lang highlight, images dir, width bump, first post
- Wire up Ergon and ArchASM custom highlight.js languages - Serve /content/images/ for post image embeds - Blog width 820px -> 1040px to match landing page - First real blog post: "Why make a blog?" 👾 Generated with [Letta Code](https://letta.com) Co-Authored-By: Letta Code <noreply@letta.com>
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# Why make a blog?
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2026-06-24
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### Not a scientist
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There are ways for people working in software to influence the world, get their thoughts and work to do something other than take up drive space:
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1. Make OSS
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2. Make a product
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3. Become a YouTuber
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4. Publish research papers
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5. Get a job
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Now, that list sounds fun, doesn't it?
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#### So why not?
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There are contentions about points 1 and 2, that I will discuss a little bit later.
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**YouTuber**? That's fun, that's engaging. Do people like watching someone rant for many minutes instead of reading text at their own pace? Someone, probably.
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But: YouTube requires schedules (hell), script-to-finished-video pipeline (suffering) and a subject matter that has a level of refinement high enough to warrant visualization throughout (despair).
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**I am no researcher.** Well, from academic perspective. I do research all the time, and it's not about earth's flatness. But academic resources, peers to review things, and actual discipline and time to make a full-fledged paper are things yours truly, regrettably, lacks. For now.
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Science is what I crave. But becoming a researcher is... Well, university/institute path is in the works, let's say.
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**No job for now.** Apparently back-end engineering is now a collection of rites and incantations with a chance of passing at around single-digit percent per interview, if you even get one.
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This leaves me with the dumb, but time-tested format of having a blog.
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And - a good excuse to make the website an actual website instead of a static html placeholder page.
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I like discussion. It's important to get out of modern echo chambers, especially the LLM-powered ones.
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You can find me [@pierre:chaosmith.systems](matrix:u/@pierre:chaosmith.systems)
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If any necessity arises, I will create a Space there. Or a group chat. Not sure what human group communication is like nowadays.
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---
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```ergon
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BEGIN_TICK 1
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LET Blog = CREATE NODE Outlet
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SET NODE Blog.author = "Pierre De Lancre"
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SET NODE Blog.name = "Chaosmith Systems"
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LET Pierre = CREATE NODE Human
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SET NODE Pierre.name = "G[REDACTED] G[REDACTED]"
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SET NODE Pierre.alias = "Pierre De Lancre"
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SET NODE Pierre.birthYear = 2000
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LET Bond = CREATE EDGE Authorship WITH Pierre Blog
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SET Bond.dateStart = 1782305654
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SET Bond.reason = "Discussion"
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END_TICK
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```
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