It it reminds me of a lot of friends who wanted to "start blogging" and their first step was writing a new static site system from scratch.

“Yak shaving”

It’s a classic move.

Start a new diet, so you join a gym and or buy a bunch of workout stuff.

I won’t knock it though. An important minority of my yak-shaving endeavors have led to long term positive outcomes.

You want to play some old classic games so you spend five days getting a Raspberry Pi set up just right with Retroarch and then when it's setup just right you do something else.

This is a thing I see everywhere. It’s the carpenter who mostly just builds jigs and french cleats for their workshop. Or the programmer who spends far too much time obsessing over what keyboard and font to use.

I went with paper and pen precisely because there was always more I wanted to do with my computer work flow.

I guess I will setup something similar or more complex. But there are alternatives:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12114947

"George R.R. Martin Writes on a DOS-Based Word Processor From the 1980s". No internet, no multi tasking.

I'd agree, but in this case they were able to write a blog post that got (as of now) 300+ points and 200+ comments with the content of their work.

A good test of your focus on writing is if you can use a boring tool like Substack, Wordpress, Blogger or Github pages (vanilla out of the box ssg setup) and just write.

That said this one did write something. But I'd say for anyone else writr 10000+ words on whatever before a single word on your setup.

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Just open a term, start opencode, and tell my idea to LLM and ask it to write a passage of given length and save it to a file for me. Then the review loop starts. This is the writing job in the new era.