My (first?) personal blog

9 January 2025

What should the first blog post on a personal blog discuss?

  • What I spend the most time on?
  • What is most important to me?
  • My identity?
  • What my audience will find the most interesting?
  • Exploring/defining a niche to set the tone for future blog posts?

Who knows? To avoid writer's block, I'll just write.

My name is Ashraf Abed, I am a father, an entrepreneur, a teacher, a web developer, a do-er.

My personal site used to be a simple HTML page because, while I am an expert web developer, it simply has not been worth the time investment to build my personal site using a framework (such as Drupal or Laravel). But now that my team has launched Drupito, the equation looks different: it does not require an up-front.. or ongoing.. investment to keep this site up. It's cheap, fast, and easy to launch.

So with that, I will finally start blogging, and we'll see what this site grows into.