Back to the world of technical blogging!

I have been writing papers for years and I have kept a technical blog on Artima for a while, but some time ago I got lost in other kind of writings and I stopped blogging for nearly four years. In the meanwhile I have switched job from financial risk to seismic risk and changed employer from a privately held company to a nonprofit foundation.

Now I am back. Since nowadays most of my time is taken by the OpenQuake Engine I am going to write about it, instead of dabbling with obscure technicalities and unpopular programming languages.

This is my first post; at the moment I am just trying to master the blogging system of GitHub Pages, by following the recommendations I found here. It is a system that makes a lot of sense to me, one that I wanted since the first time I started to use a revision control system, more than ten years ago. I have been using a hand-crafted version of the same ideas for a long time (I mean writing papers in plain text under revision control and converting them into HTML at publication time); finally I see that such ideas have caught up, even if ten years too late.

Everything seems to be working as advertised, I just need to figure out how to modify the presentation details, such as the font size, the background, et cetera. I have already got the navigation bar under control and I am going to check how to enable Disqus comments. Then I will be ready to write my first real post, which will be about the structure of the engine and its underlying libraries.

Stay tuned!