Obviously I have this, or some other idea for a long while. Now it's time to pinpoint it.

The blog will be about web craftsmanship. I want to write on regular basis (no less then once a week) about things I'm learning in this field.

I want to create and maintain my own engine for this. The reasons are:

• it will be a nice playground development,

• I will have everything my way.

• I will be able to write about developing my blog on my blog.

Technical considerations

• Isomorphic app

  Rendered to static files on build time. Raw markdown and metadata should be hosted along compiled HTML for client side routing and rendering.

• Adhere to progressive enhancement principles

• Git integrated

  Both engine and content should be version controlled. There should be two separate repos. Eventually I want to post and update via git push.

  As much metadata as possible should be gathered from repo. This would ideally include:

  • Publication date (i.e. the date given post was merged to master?)
  • Editing history
  • Authors (if there were changes merged from pull requests)

Nice to have features

• Twitter integration

  Display my tweets and retweets in a feed among blog posts.

  Post updates to Twitter automatically.

• Stack Exchange integration

  Display my Stack Exchange activity (questions and answers) in a feed among blog posts.