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Why a blog?

Wednesday, 1 February 2023

Since 1995, I've had a web presence in some way, shape or form. They started with personal homepages from services like Geocities or the 'free' webspace included in the cost of whichever ISP I was using at the time. Like many others I eventually migrated my online presence to "Social Networks", trying most of them along the way.

Over time I've become more disgruntled at the leadership and privacy policies of social network and have either closed my accounts completely, or deleted all of my posts whilst maintaining an inactive account, just in case.

But this left me with a dilema. Where to post my thoughts and share the links I enjoy? The answer seemed obvious. I'm a web developer. I have domains. I have server capacity. Why not host and write my own link blog? 

This isn't new - I'm following the format popularised by sites like kottke.org and Daring Fireball. And as time goes I'll hopefully give it my own twist. And for the first time in 28 years being online, I own my own thoughts. 

I don't know how often I'll be posting here. Perhaps frequently. Perhaps infrequently. Or most likely, it will be feast and famine. I expect the audience for this to be no one other than me, but who knows. 

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(If you care, I maintain accounts on Mastodon, Twitter and Instagram but rarely - if ever - post).