Blaugust 2025: Preparation

The prompt asks two questions.

1. Did you start preparing for Blaugust before the August 1st start date?
2. If so, what did you do ahead of time to make sure you’d stay on track?

1. Did I start preparing for Blaugust before it started?

Yes and no.

2. What did I do to prepare for Blaugust?

I didn‘t start writing anything, which is what I feel like the questions are trying to get at, only writing down a few potential topics. But those all might be worthy of more time than I’ll realistically have during this adventure, so they’re effectively tabled.

What I did do, however, and well before I’d ever heard of Blaugust, was start refreshing my setup:

• I redesigned my site—which houses my blog—a few months ago.
• I moved it from managed PaaS to my own server.
• I set myself up with Obsidian as a more suitable prose writing tool than my beloved coding editor Helix.

I unwittingly engaged in my favorite form of procrastination—doing something else vaguely constructive—but this time beforehand! And for once it turned out to be useful, since the new setup has been pretty smooth so far.

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