Grabbing My Blog and Going Home
Note my subtle scheme to get this to
come up in searches for “jtr’s blog.”
I’ve moved off Medium to here, the blog platform I wrote: https://blog.jtr.name/. All the existing posts are also available here.
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Instead of a built-in commenting system, new posts will be announced in a post to the Fediverse, where you can respond with comments if you are willing to use Mastodon or Threads.
I want to blog more, and I’m tired of Medium, its paywall, its notifications of articles I’m not willing to pay to read, and it’s hard to get my pages well-ranked on search engines for terms like “jtr’s blog.” I know a lot of people use Substack — I tried it out, in support of a now-deceased podcast — but I find it too pushy. (Also, and I’m sure this is not relatable, but it feels fundamentally unsafe to have things I’ve written whose canonical storage is a WYSIWIG thing on somebody else’s servers, instead of a text file under revision control.)
What both Medium and Substack do have is nice page layouts. But we live in an era where code is cheap, and I think I’ve emulated the best features of both.
Looking forward to posting more soon!