thapar.logs : Workflow Setup

I was walking Murphy, my dog, when it hit me.

I’m a developer. I don’t want to engineer my blog. Markdown is already my first language. Turns out it’s an LLM’s too. And that’s when I thought, why not also write this blog in markdown?

I got home and googled it. Apparently Jekyll, GitHub Pages, and half the internet had already figured this out. Andrej Karpathy even has a name for it: LLM Wiki. A person who could use anything, chose a folder of .md files. That’s not laziness. That’s a signal.

Because here’s the thing: markdown wasn’t designed to be the language of AI. It just turned out to be the language that humans and machines both happen to speak. The first format in history that was built for thinking, and accidentally became perfect for reasoning.

Turns out I’m not a genius. I’m just predictable.

The thing that actually sealed it for me was a Reddit thread. Someone asking how to publish Obsidian notes for free. The top answer was exactly right.

It was posted by Obsidian’s CEO.

He showed up in a subreddit to personally help a user avoid paying for his own product. I don’t know, that just did something for me.

This blog is the result of that dog walk. I build things in the open. Might as well write about them the same way. Written in Obsidian, rendered by Jekyll, hosted on GitHub Pages, tracked by Google Analytics. Completely free.

Oh, and one more thing. I didn’t really write this post. I talked it into existence and let a machine find the shape. Maybe that’s the whole point.