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title: "Hello World"
url: https://jelmerdejong.com/posts/hello-world/
description: "Why Jelmer de Jong restarted his blog in 2025, after blogging on and off since 2003, and the Hugo and Cloudflare stack behind this site."
date: 2025-01-02
author: Jelmer de Jong
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# Hello World

2025 will be the year of the revival of the blog.

...or at least it will be for mine.

Not for a particular reason; I've been blogging on and off since 2003, back when Blogger was still a thing, Twitter did not exist, and personal blogs didn't receive spam but 10+ comments on every post, and that with only 20 visits. I stopped and restarted on different platforms to play with the tech or because I felt I had something to share. And that something always felt cringe a year later, which resulted in clicking 'destroy' (and no guarantee that will not happen this time).

The web is different now. But even more exciting. And yes, trying out [Hugo](https://gohugo.io/) on [Cloudflare Pages](https://pages.cloudflare.com/) (yet another tech stack) is also a reason to satisfy the nerd in me. *Update: the site has since moved to [Cloudflare Workers](https://workers.cloudflare.com/), so the stack keeps changing.*

Another reason: I enjoy writing more. To gather my own thoughts, to help me grasp a concept. And to have a fallback and library to go back to, re-read, re-write, and share.

What to expect? Keep your expectations low, very low. I'm doing this for myself. But if you enjoy what you see (or not), [let me know on X](https://x.com/jelmerdejong).

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Jelmer de Jong, Partner and Chief Technology Officer at RTP Global. More at https://jelmerdejong.com/ (https://jelmerdejong.com/llms.txt).