Bismillaahir Rahmaanir Raheem
Yesterday I had a implement a small, custom template for Wordpress. As a result, I had a chance to see the innards of Wordpress in a way I never really did before. Let me just say that now I’m really excited to actually go through and write my own custom theme for my personal blog - a task I never really seriously contemplated until now.
Bismillaahir Rahmaanir Raheem
Software that is free from proprietary restrictions (a.k.a, free-and-open-source software, which I will refer to as simply “free software” for the rest of this post) has become exceedingly important in my life for both philosophical as well as practical reasons. Not only do I truly believe free software to be inherently better in every way for humanity than proprietary/closed-source software, but I have become increasingly incapable of working with non-free software. Now that free software solutions run the gamut of nearly everything I have a need for, I have all but eliminated non-free software from my essential stack. Having said that, I have a special interest in web-based free software as this particular realm of software has become crucial not only to myself, but to nearly all projects in which I am involved.
