I give up

By this point, I've already spent several hours trying to get ghost email configured. Well, hey, I think I finally did, though.

And of course there was a little segue in there because Mailgun pointed me towards a free domain offer which was not working right and then when I looked up that it would be very expensive to renew with that provider, it ultimately didn't matter. But somehow in the middle of it, it got me thinking about domains that I've been procrastinating on transferring. Boom, somewhere in that two hours, I've also managed to transfer a domain.

But really, this post is supposed to be about me complaining about having set the bar too high, I guess, with trying to do a site a day.

So this site ends up actually being the last thing that I counted.

And literally hours ago, I would have been motivated to talk about what the point actually was, but after having to troubleshoot email for two hours, I guess I now understand why people pay hosting platforms instead of self-hosting.

The overall point was that I have a whole bunch of domains with either nothing on them or a project that I started and it never quite got to where I wanted or more so it's on a technology stack that I no longer use. And I wanted to see if I could figure out how to either use the whole MVP framework or the SLC framework to come up with something self-contained that I'd be happy enough with and that wouldn't require me going through the depths of my old memory to try to figure out how to get stuff done.

My sort of goal now would be to just keep pushing forward and not have to force myself into that work being specifically in re writing something old or pushing out something brand new as a complete site.

One of the things that I feel like I do need to legit solve for myself is some kind of accomplishment slog because I can have days where I'm working all day on different things or maybe even one thing but with my trash memory by the time I've been away long enough I completely forgot what it was that I spent hours and hours and hours on that day.

However, thanks to this post, I now have a record that I spent way too many hours trying to get email configured in Ghost. So, hooray.