Posting flow
I made the previous post using my phone. It's annoying that I can't use the Wordpress app with self-hosted sites (which is what this is), but the "mobile web" experience for the sam…
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Snippet sharing
Ruminating on how tiny bits of content are mixed in with larger bits, here, the options are 1. Don't share it 2. Share it somewhere else 3. Share it mixed in, as separate posts 4. Share it &q…
Switching to self-hosted Wordpress
For various reasons, I decided to ditch wordpress.com and self-host this blog. It might turn out to be a terrible idea, but I’ll stick with it for a year. Some motivations: * better control throug…
Streaming posts
(FYI) Continuing my experiments in blogging patterns, I created https://cyberneticwords.com as a "stream of snippets" site. I will evaluate after a year if it's worth continuing it or no…
Combining the two kinds of curated monthly posts
For a long time now1 I’ve put together a bunch of links that I’ve found interesting, and done this every month. In the beginning, I had two separate blogs (I can’t reconstruct the rationale behind th…
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I realized the only reason this is Wordpress is that (1) it allowed me to import older material from an old Tumblr, and (2) I'm still in the "write-somewhere-then-export-to-Wordpress" mo…
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On the shortened blog name
In the beginning, “ Abacus Noir Form ” was a play-on-words for ” A Backus-Naur-Form ”, which I soon realized was funny in my head, but not necessarily meaningful to anyone else. General inertia k…
Retro-active content
Just finished importing two old Tumblr blogs (each from roughly 4-5 years ago), one under my name and one ... not. So there's suddenly a lot more content at this blog, in 2014-2015 ! (of course,…
Continuing thoughts about the “static blog”
After some deliberation, I feel there’s no point in either (1) keeping a separate static-only blog and this blog, or (2) keeping two separate Wordpress blogs, because * I don’t have the mind space f…
Spring cleaning
Doing some spring cleaning of various online stuff: * Moved this to a new domain as a one-year trial * Imported my old Tumblr (yeah, I had one ...) * Try out TinyLetter for the monthly updates *…
Short-form blog posts
It has to be okay to write one-paragraph posts, otherwise I’ll never end up getting what’s in my head out somewhere. I just don’t happen to be an essay-writing kind of person, I can’t bring myself to…