Thinking About Simplification
This site’s a fun playground, but it’s evolved into a cluttered maze. Lately I’ve been wondering if it’s time to strip it down so I can focus on writing.
Tag: meta
💭 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.
A New Lick of Paint
So I've been playing around with a new design for this site for a couple of weeks now, and it's finally to the point where I think it's good to go live.
Doing a Jack Baty...?
I've been thinking about a changing some stuff up around here lately, but I'm on the fence as to what to do. You could say I'm doing a Jack Baty...
RSS Feed Changes
You've probably seen a load of unread RSS items from my feed, sorry about that. Here's why...
Blog Questions Challenge
I saw a post from Brandon about a blog questions challenge doing the rounds on Bearblog and figured, even though I'm not on Bearblog, I'd do my own. 🙃
A Year With Kirby CMS
It’s been a year since I migrated this site to Kirby CMS, let’s talk about how that’s gone…
Why Have a Personal Site Instead of Social Media?
I was posting my usual waffle over on Fosstodon yesterday, and someone asked a question about having a personal site vs just using social media. So I naturally decided to write a post on my personal site about it.
Less Blogging About Blogging
Brandon talks about his desire to write less about blogging. I'm not sure I agree though.
On This Site & Financial Stability
I've been thinking about the future of this site recently, and I wanted to pen down some of the thoughts that have been rattling around my grey matter.
Improving My Watch Log
I recently wrote about adding a watch wearing log to this site. I've been working away on improving it, and I think it's pretty great.
Adding a Watch Wearing Log to This Site
Everyone knows I'm a watch geek, but I've now taken it one step further and added a watch wearing log to this site.
Adding Replies & Reactions to My Guestbook
Since I launched my guestbook back in February, lots of people have signed it, but I couldn't reply to them. Now I can.
I Stopped Mastodon DDoSing Me (I Think)
I recently wrote about how Mastodon is DDoSing me every time I post a link to this site. I've managed to fix the problem...I think.
Mastodon Is DDoSing Me
Whenever I, or someone else, posts a link to this blog on Mastodon, it DDoS's me and brings the site down for a couple minutes.
What About Anonymous Blogging?
Have you ever thought about blogging anonymously? I blog under my real name, but wonder if that could have held me back...
New Layout
I recently wrote about how I was thinking about a new layout on this site. After taking some time to think it through, I've now published it.
Thinking about a New Layout
I've been thinking about making some changes to the layout of this site, but I'm on the fence. What do you think of these mockups?
I've Finally Completed 100 Days to Offload
I started the #100DaysToOffload challenge back in April 2020, but I've never been able to complete it. That has now changed. 🎉
Guestbook Spam is Fun
Since launching my Guestbook yesterday, I've been hit with a bunch of spam entries. I forgot how much \"fun\" it is dealing with this shit.