Getting started
Hello, and welcome to my blog! I'm Danielle, or Dani for short. It's so lovely to meet you!
I've been deliberating over the idea of creating a Bear blog over the last few months, so if you're reading this it means I've finally made a start.
I've been an avid reader of many Bear blogs ever since I stumbled across the platform earlier this year (probably via Hacker News).
So far the experience with Bear blog has been a real breath of fresh air. Countless others have espoused the virtues of the platform and the small web in general much better than I could, so I won't repeat them here. But what I will say is how much it reminds me of what it used to be like to browse the web during my childhood.
And it was during my childhood that I first got into blogging. I was fascinated by the web, and decided I wanted to create my very own website, but had no idea how. It lead me to creating my first ever blog using Google's Blogger platform, and for most of my childhood I maintained a blog or website in some shape or form. But when I got older, I switched over to social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit.
Bear brings me back to that simpler time, and I've been inspired by the posts I read every day on the Discovery feed to start my own blog.
However, the biggest challenge over the last few months has been getting started. I've agonised for weeks: what should my username be? What should I name my blog? What should I blog about? I'd convinced myself that nobody cares what I have to say, that none of my thoughts are unique, that I have nothing to say, even.
But today, I thought, I need to just do it. There's no point waiting around for the perfect time, for inspiration to strike regarding the perfect username or blog title or whatever. All of that can be changed later. For now, I've gone with my name, and actually I quite like the simplicity of it.
And in fact, as I was writing the first draft of this blog post, I went off on a massive tangent about my experience of the web while growing up, so I certainly do have something unique to say. (That's my next blog post idea sorted.)
These little seedlings of ideas often pop into my head every now and then, so now that I finally have a place to put them I can hopefully grow them into fully formed posts.
It'll come as little surprise that I'm interested in the small web, digital minimalism, and online privacy. Recently I've just started trying to get into art and art history, while in the past I've gotten into language learning (but never did manage to stick with one language for long enough). I love listening to electronic music, but I'm also into rock, indie, and K-Pop.
I hope to use this blog to talk about whatever takes my fancy, and to share little thoughts and reflections about my life.
Thank you so much for your time and I hope you will look forward to my future posts.
Dani <3