My social media bacta tank is working
For context, you may want to read my post from early January I am quitting social media. There were two main actions I took when I decided to pull the plug on…
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P. I. Moore on quitting social media
P. I. Moore in continuance of my quitting social media post writes: This couldn’t resonate with me more. Through having my own plans and ambitions going forward to better both myself and…
2021 in review: blog and projects
I thought it would be fun to review what has happened this past year on my blog, what I had set out to do, and what I’ve accomplished. I’m hoping that by…
My 2021 blogging stats
Number of posts per month: January – 40 February – 37 March – 71 April – 44 May – 39 June – 31 July – 46 August – 23 September – 14…
Unfollowing everyone and everything, again
Me, in 2015: As many of you reading this likely know, I do this all the time. Probably once every two or three months. I delete everything on Twitter and Feedly and start…
Micro.blog adds Flickr support
Manton Reece: This is for people who have a Flickr account that has gone unused, but who know there’s value on Flickr if only it was easier to remember to use it….
Jeremy Keith’s blog turns 20
Happy belated Anniversary to Jeremy Keith's blog. Jeremy Keith: Many’s the blogger who has let the weeds grow over their websites as they were lured by the siren song of centralised social…
What I saw somewhat recently #86: September 11, 2021
I was recently able to jump on a train and photograph the Engineer. Look for that in my portfolio when I develop the film. Speaking of my photography portfolio, I've added several…
Dave Rupert on blog post hits
Dave Rupert: Two posts that I thought would be bangers got nearly zero reach. The inverse law of blogging strikes again! The Surprise Chain is a post I quite literally worked on for…
Nicky Case on RSS
Nicky Case: RSS works on a "don't call me, I'll call you" policy. I like that line. Readers of this blog need not be reminded of the value of RSS (nor of…
Bluesky
Bluesky: We're focusing on re-building the social web by connecting disconnected silos and returning control of the social experience to users. Our mission is to develop and drive the adoption of technologies…
An updated list of film photography blogs by Jim Grey
Jim Grey: It’s time for my annual list of film photography blogs! A great joy of film photography is the community of people who enjoy everything about it: the gear, the films,…
My 2020 blogging stats
Yes, I'm writing this post in July of 2021. I don't know what to tell you. Number of posts per month: January – 20 February – 7 March – 27 April -…
Julia Evans \”Blog about what you’ve struggled with\”
Julia Evans: I think this approach is effective because if I struggled with something, there’s a pretty good chance that other people are struggling with it too, and what I learned is…
Cory Doctorow writes about 20 years of blogging
Here are a few bits from Cory Doctorow's Medium post on blogging: The genius of the blog was not in the note-taking, it was in the publishing. The act of making your log-file…
Trial Micro.blog for podcasting
Manton Reece: To celebrate the launch of version 1.1, we’re enabling podcast hosting for all paid Micro.blog accounts for the next 2 weeks. You can publish a podcast episode to your blog…
Robin Rendle on blog post titles
Robin Rendle: I love it when blog post titles are indecipherable to search engines. There are exceptions, like when you want to document a technical thing and so you should have a…
Christian McGregor on blogging our choices
Christian McGregor, in response to my photo library management workflow post: I appreciate the effort people take to post things like this. Every post adds to the pool of knowledge to help…
Cypress is now available for free on Micro.blog
If you're a member of Micro.blog you can now choose to use Cypress as your theme for free. Log in and click on your Design settings page, and choose the theme. That's…
Micro.blog launches Discourse help center
Manton Reece: The idea is to use the web forums software Discourse and combine it with all the content from our original help site. This looks like it will be very helpful….
James Michie’s tips for blogging
James Michie, 10 years ago, wrote a post about what he had learned after a year of blogging. Then, this year, he wrote a very short post to revisit and update that…
Link priority
I have linked to what must be millions of things. I share a lot of links from here on my blog. I have linked to hundreds of artists from The Watercolor Gallery….
Blogging for me
I've covered this topic many times from many different perspectives. I publish on my blog mostly for myself and for the added benefit that someone else will find the information useful. Recently…
Why I still use RSS – Marc
Some blogger named Marc: I firmly believe the Internet, and what it stood for, peaked with RSS. I can't argue with this. Also, this bit: However it wasn't until I began working…
Lucy Bellwood on blogging
Lucy Bellwood: Some of it is using an RSS reader to change the cadence and depth of my consumption—pulling away from the quick-hit likes of social media in favor of a space…
The most important blog
Seth Godin: Even if no one but you reads it. The blog you write each day is the blog you need the most. It’s a compass and a mirror, a chance to…
Simon Collison on personal websites
Simon Collison: You tend your domain like you steadily improve your home, and it can take years of false starts and incremental commits. Don’t think of it as urgent work, or —…
Matthias Ott on having a personal web site
Matthias Ott on CSS-Tricks: Personal websites still deliver on that promise. Nowhere else do you have that much freedom to create and share your work and to tell your personal story. It…
A new theme for my site
Update December 10, 2020: I tried. And I've now reverted. For the last several years I've been using a customized version of the Davis theme by Anders Norén. I started using the…
Andy Baio interviews the owner of the house on Blue Lick Road
Andy Baio: But a larger question remained: what’s the deal with this place? Whoever owned it, they were too organized to be hoarders. The home appeared to double as the office and warehouse for…