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title: "This blog's Hello World (or whatever you want to call this site)"
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slug: "en-hello-world"
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description: "A short note on why this exists and what I plan to write about here."
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pubDate: 2026-09-22
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tags: ["meta", "blogging"]
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language: "en"
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I've always had a creative side, as anyone who knows me can tell you. Sometimes it gets tucked away somewhere obscure, in the back of a drawer, waiting years to be used. And sometimes I make really good use of it.
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I've always loved writing, and I've wanted a place of my own to publish my thoughts for a long time. Only the ones I'd want to be public, of course. Nobody wants to hand over the entire inner workings of their brain just like that, for free. Still, I think some of my intellectual adventures deserve a bit of exposure, especially since, without someone to judge them, I'll never know if they were worth it.
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One of my inspirations for creating a site/blog was [Fábio Akita](https://instagram.com/akitaonrails). I've been following him for a long time, and it was through the videos on [his YouTube channel](https://youtube.com/akitaonrails) that I started studying computer science, before I even got into college. Even though the videos are genuinely great, teaching things that are hard to learn any other way, after a while of binge-watching them I found his blog, [akitaonrails.com](https://akitaonrails.com). I thought it was super cool, and I liked the idea of having a personal place to share your opinions and the things you've learned.
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Akita is a seasoned guy who's been in the industry for years. Me? Just a student slightly ahead of the material in my CS program. To people my age, this whole writing thing, having a blog, sounds like something old people do. But, like I said in my [last post](https://gabeefran.co/posts/spotify-complaining), I like the idea of doing things the old-fashioned way every now and then. The word _"Blog"_ sounds so 2010, but I don't know what else I'd call this crappy site you're reading. I guess _"blog"_ it is. Good thing I've been practicing caring less about what other people think, and look at that: it's working!
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Anyway, call it whatever you want, I think it's worth posting something here every now and then. Even if nobody's interested, whatever! Then let it just be my public folder of notes. Just the fact that I opened the drawer and pulled my creativity out from the back of it already makes it all worth it.
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