Posts in “Blogging”

Friends from Blogging

I've been lucky enough to make a number of friends off the back of this blog (and also their blogs). This is a bit of a feel good post about how social media isn't the only way to meet new people.

📅 13 October 2023

How It All Connects

There's some automation on this site that posts to various places, all via RSS. Here's how it works.

📅 10 July 2023

Moving from Jekyll to Blot

I've been exploring Blot lately. It's great, so I've decided to move this site over to it from Jekyll.

📅 19 April 2023

Is Good Enough...Good Enough?

I'm going down a platform rabbit hole (again!) and I don't know what to do...

📅 10 April 2023

Building a Self-Hosted Microblog

I've been struggling with Micro.blog's offering for a little while, so I decided to build my own microblog.

📅 06 April 2023

Thoughts on Editing Posts

Should content on a personal site be edited, or should it be a snapshot in time? Here's my thoughts...

📅 20 March 2023

Are you making these design mistakes on your blog?

This is a list of design mistakes that I think too many blogs make. I've made some of them myself over years, so I'm speaking from experience here...

📅 11 March 2023

My Static Site Workflow

I've managed to come up with a static site workflow that I think is as good as WordPress. Here's the details...

📅 27 February 2023

Ten Years of Blogging

Ten years ago today, I started this blog. I can't believe it's been a decade already! Here's some stats from the last 10 years, as well as some lessons I've learned along the way...

📅 19 January 2023

Does a Blog Need to Integrate?

I'm often asked about integrating a blog with X service, does it really need to though?

📅 03 January 2023