Why this blog?

Hello, I’m Wesley¹ and this is the first post of my blog, for years — since I was a kid — I enjoy writing down my thoughts and ideas, in my childhood time would create prototypes on Blogger and share content about Minecraft or computer tricks that I’ve had found over the web. The last website I built was wesleyjrz.github.io , which is a very simple website I made when learning HTML5, CSS3 and some JavaScript in my first steps on programming, at that time most of my JS code was taken from Stack Overflow and I didn’t even understand every aspect of it, but I’ve always learned through challenges this way, trying things that I’ve never used before, don’t expect too much for this old website, it was just my first learning experiece where I just wanted to create something with my bare hands for the first time, and that’s what I did.

Nevertheless, now I want to have a place to share my thoughts, discoveries and new knowledge, without caring about building it from scratch, I want just usability and simplicity, and that’s why I built this personal blog using an amazing tool called Hugo , which is an incredible fast framework written in Go to create static websites, and it perfect fits my needs, the theme I’m using is Notepadium which I’ve chosen because it doesn’t use any JavaScript, providing a fast, secure and clean experience for everyone and keeping things as simple as possible. It’s possible to access my website in every Web Browser out there without any struggles, even those terminal-based ones like w3m and lynx. I may add some custom JS in the future if it becomes really necessary, but I don’t pretend to.

Postea² I’m going to write more about myself in the About section for those who are interested, for now you can take a look on this brief overview of my personal tastes and projects in my GitHub Profile. Also check the source of this website anytime at wesleyjrz/wesleyjrz.com .

The blog’s name

The name of the website is a reference to the name of the C++ programming language, which has this name because it is like C but with a bunch of new features added to it. This blog is like my first personal website, but with a lot more added to it, because it isn’t only about me, but it’s a repository of knowledge that I acquire being published, it’s like my mind being turned into an open-source project.

Why Aloha world instead of Hello world?

The name of this post is Aloha world because Aloha is a Hawaiian greeting that means either “Hello” or “Goodbye”, and it’s the word for love as well, in programming we always starting learning a new language by writing a code that prints out the “Hello world!” phrase to the screen, so why not write “Aloha world!” as well?

#include <stdio.h>

int main(void)
{
  puts("Aloha world!");
  return 0;
}

That’s it, it was just a short presentation of my new blog for you guys, there’s more coming soon, aloha!

Notes and references³

1. Pronounced as: /ˈwɛzli/
2. Later
3. All publications with top-numbered words or phrases will have a section like this with notes and/or references