It's Alive (again)
Moved to Ghost, finally. This is something I'd procrastinated on for a long time, and luckily, got a few hours on successive weekends, and made it happen. Why Ghost? Cleaner writing interface, m…
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A note about my blogs
Sharing snippets
Was recently inspired by Dylan who has an "open notebook" account on X. I do have a blog -- but I don't want to start dumping a massive pile of micro-posts there. Instead, my Readwise…
Of messages and Medium
I've gone back-and-forth with different "posting workflows" over the years, and had receded into "Wordpress-only" over the last year. Various recent alternatives: 1. Complet…
Realizations after watching a play
(a draft originally written July 2023) Watched a performance of Matilda this weekend. This was such an old-school experience. We were told turn off all phones, not take any photographs or record an…
Random Note #987346
(reviving an old draft) A blog shouldn't be a series of posts. What if I want to change an older post? A blog should be a graph of posts, and the "chronology" should be a series of dif…
Thoughts on a separate blog
I’ve gone back and forth on this — essentially separating the “personal updates” from “thoughts/opinions on various subjects”. I almost went for it again, and thought of using Ghost for a new blog.…
“Curations” is moving
Some sort of monthly curated links has been a staple here for about a decade now (I started with a breakdown by category, but towards the end had just a “bag of links”). In an effort to consolidate a…
TOTD
Some "thoughts of the day", from Colter Reed: 1. Anything can be made worse by overthinking it. 2. When you’re not sure what to do next, pick whatever will help you build some momentum ba…
A quote for many moments
“And some certain significance lurks in all things, else all things are little worth, and the round world itself but an empty cipher” From Moby Dick…
A note on curations
I've been doing some sort of "link curation" here for several years now. "Collecting" links isn't something I actively spend time on, it's a reflection of things I com…
Switching back to hosted Wordpress
I tried an experiment of using a self-hosted DigitalOcean-droplet-based copy of this site for a year. It went well, but I see no advantage to that. Or rather, there are advantages (freedom w.r.t. pl…