The Case for Blogging in the Ruins
In a web dominated by feeds and algorithms, Joan makes a strong case for blogging as a way to reclaim depth, ownership, and real thinking.
📅 06 January 2026
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Posts in “Blogging”
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Static Site Generators
Jan talks about how static site generators are far more complicated than WordPress, despite (ironically) their output being far simpler.
📅 25 November 2025
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Adding Comments to My Jekyll Site
I've been working on adding support for comments over the last few months. On a static site, that's hard, but it's finally done.
📅 21 November 2025
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Small Web, Big Voice
Andre argues that independent blogging isn’t about scale at all, but about integrity — choosing a place you control, writing in your own voice, and keeping the web human.
📅 15 November 2025
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Stop Explaining What Things Are
Ever searched for a fix to a technical problem, only to get a 1,000 word essay on what the thing is? Yeah, me too.
📅 05 November 2025
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Blogging Gets Serious in 2001 With Warblogs and Movable Type
Blogging’s identity shifted in 2001 from quirky personal logs to serious commentary and war-blogging, as new platforms and RSS made real-time publishing possible.
📅 30 October 2025
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Like, Share and Subscribe
I was reading The Internet Phonebook last night and a comment in the prologue stood out to me about the term 'like, share and subscribe'.
📅 12 October 2025
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Switching Back to Jekyll & Building My Own CMS
After flip-flopping about what I'm going to do with this site, I decided to flip to Jekyll and build my own little CMS while I'm at it. Because why not? 🤷🏻♂️
📅 30 September 2025
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💭 What Others Said...
I've been reading a lot about blog interactions, community echos, and manual Webmentions recently. So I decided to jump on the bandwagon and roll my own.
📅 26 August 2025
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What Kinda Blogs Do You Read?
I was wondering what kinda things you, dear reader, like to read online?
📅 07 June 2025