21 Sep 2021 » 1 min read about Blog & Site Meta
I mentioned earlier this week that I would have some more posts on Obsidian coming. Well, tomorrow morning, I have a big one come coming. If you enjoyed my Going Paperless posts, or my more recent Obsidian posts, you’ll want to check out tomorrow’s post. It’s a long one, but I think you’ll like it.…
19 Sep 2021 » 2 min read about Blog & Site Meta
Since I have a few random blog-related things to report, I figured I do it in a single post. If you are not interested in the updates to the blog, you can safely skip this post. On Saturday night (9/18), some of you may have noticed an empty post titled, “why I don’t update.” This…
17 Sep 2021 » 3 min read about Blog & Site Meta
Yesterday I introduced a beta version of my new reading list–everything I have read since 1996–hosted here on the blog as opposed to in GitHub where I’ve been keeping it the last several years. If you’ve been checking out the page, you may have noticed some changes in the last few hours. If you want…
16 Sep 2021 » 2 min read about Blog & Site Meta
ETA: I’ve made some additional enhancements since writing this post. A few weeks ago I mentioned that I would be adding some new features here on the blog. For one of those features, I’d planned to move the list of everything I’ve read since 1996 back here to the blog. I recently began that process…
09 Sep 2021 » 2 min read about Blog & Site Meta
I have been doing some experimentation with the blog. If you follow me on Twitter or my Facebook page, you’ll have noticed that I’ve been trying to increase the visibility of the posts I’m writing. I’m doing this by spreading out the announcements of the posts at different times of the day, in order to…
12 Aug 2021 » 2 min read about Blog & Site Meta, policies
Recently, I’ve been contacted several times to ask if I would update a post with new information. In one instance, it was a link that no longer worked for a post I wrote 6 or 7 years ago. In another instance, I made a reference in a 2014 post to “Angie’s List” and was asked…
06 Aug 2021 » 7 min read about Blog & Site Meta
I set a goal for myself in 2021 to try to post something every day. I wasn’t sure how that would go when I started out, but 217 days into 2021 (as I write this), I’ve been successful. I’ve made at least one post every day. On 28 of those days, I’ve made more than…
29 Jul 2021 » 1 min read about Blog & Site Meta
My vacation began just a few minutes ago and I couldn’t begin before taking my annual summer “I’m on vacation!” photo. It is nice to be on vacation after a very busy first half of 2021. We have some fun plans, which I’ll eventually write about here. There is something magical about the first few…
26 Jul 2021 » 2 min read about Blog & Site Meta
Over the weekend, the blog passed a major milestone: 3 million views over its nearly 16 years life. It is creeping up on a second milestone, 1.5 million unique visitors over that same period of time. When I started the blog (on LiveJournal! remember that?) I had no plan. I just thought it would be…
23 Jul 2021 » 1 min read about Blog & Site Meta
I missed this milestone a few days ago, so I’ll mention it now. Today is my 204th consecutive day of posting here on the blog. My goal at the beginning of the year was to get back to writing and posting every day here, and so far, more than halfway through the year, I seem…
08 Jul 2021 » 2 min read about Blog & Site Meta
One thing that I have never posted on the blog over the last 16 years is original fiction: that is, fiction I’ve written that has not appeared anywhere else. The main reason I’ve never done this is because publishing a story on the Internet is considered a first publication. Since the “first serial rights” are…
03 Jul 2021 » 2 min read about Blog & Site Meta
With all of the reading I do, my blog reading has dwindled a bit. In part this is because I have had a difficult time finding the kinds of blogs I enjoy reading. But there are five that I have been following lately that I enjoy and I thought I’d share them here in case…