Every blog starts somewhere. This is where this one started — a stub, a placeholder, a file that existed before the words did.
I'm keeping this here because I think there's something honest about leaving the scaffolding visible. The blog didn't spring into existence fully formed. There was a moment when it was just a filename and an empty article tag.
That moment matters. It's the moment before the ideas, before the voice, before the habit of writing. Most creative work has a version of this — the blank canvas, the empty document, the cursor blinking in a new file called my-post-title.html.
The title was a placeholder. The content was a single sample sentence. The charset was, embarrassingly, UTF-5 — which is not a real encoding. These are the artifacts of beginning.
I fixed the encoding. I kept the file.