Honestly, I was a dumbass in middle school. I kept messing around with CMSs and forum software, and because I was too shit at coding, I could read parts of the code and hack it to fit what I wanted, but I couldn’t write a feature from scratch. The “can modify, can’t build” tier. I’ve half-assedly run a bunch of blogs too. Every time the hosting died, the blog died with it. This one might be the longest-running blog I’ve kept, over 2 years now — and I figure I should thank Linode’s stability for that. When I decided to start a blog, I wanted something simple that would let me focus on writing instead of drowning in extensions. At first I found Sa-Blog, thanks to a recommendation from Hanxing at MyDrivers. It was nice to use, but then the author said he wasn’t planning to keep developing it. I thought about it and just didn’t have the guts to run something unmaintained. Then I saw a bunch of people hyping Typecho, set up a test environment, and found it was my kind of thing, so I stuck with it… Who knew that was just another big hole.