Tag: Blogging
To My Readers: What Do You Want To See More Of?
I finally curated my blog posts into collections, revealing what I write about most: the IndieWeb, the craft of writing, community, technical tutorials, politics, culture, and more. A call to my readers to tell me what they want to see more of, and a reflection on how organizing my work helps me understand my own writing patterns and what I want to write more of.
Anche Qui
Sono blogger da quando esistono i blog... Circa in questo modo iniziavo a scrivere, ogni volta, uno per uno, in serie e in parallelo, i tanti, forse troppi blog che ho aperto, tenuto e chiuso a partire dal lontano 2000, anno in cui circa fecero la loro comparsa questi versatili diari online (lo ricordo, all'epoca proposti da Pyra Labs). I blog esistono ancora? Evidentemente sì. Il fatto che l'ecosistema AT Protocol abbia coniato il suo standard in tema di longwriting seriale nel Web la dice lung...
Joining Robert Birming’s JulyReply 2026
Last month, I participated in Robert Birming's "Junited" project, wherein I (and others) shared good blog posts from around the web. I joined late (see my Junited 2026 posts) and failed to share a few that I saved (I was busy in late June), but I nevertheless managed to share 19 blog posts and articles...
Shake Off the Dust!
Completing #100DaysToOffload twice in under two years, and somewhere along the way the wet clay hardened at the edges. Invisible ruts form inside the habits you love, and there's a difference between a window and a mirror in writing. The hermit crab outgrows shells, including the ones that still fit fine.
Blogging on ATProtocol - costs
So, I'm old enough to remember the saying, that if the product is free, then you are the product. And that has instilled in me a healthy scepticism of any product that provides a good service for no charge. This is one of the main reasons that I have held back on Bluesky a bit, as there is no clear way for them to pay the bills. I understand that up until now they have relied on private investors and venture capital, although there are plans to generate some sort of revenue.
Blogging on ATProtocol - costs
So, I'm old enough to remember the saying, that if the product is free, then you are the product. And that has instilled in me a healthy scepticism of any product that provides a good service for no charge. This is one of the main reasons that I have held back on Bluesky a bit, as there is no clear way for them to pay the bills. I understand that up until now they have relied on private investors and venture capital, although there are plans to generate some sort of revenue. So on the blogging p...
Vagueblogging and Subtweeting Are Awful
Vagueblogging and subtweeting are the most toxic modes of online communication, yet research shows people prefer them to direct confrontation anyway. On the psychology of strategic ambiguity, insecure attachment, context collapse, and the online disinhibition effect. A case against the culture of passive aggression online, and a call for those with safety and privilege to stop hiding behind the same hedge as everyone else.
Microblogging sucks
Somehow @bunniesin.space managed to perfectly summarize why microblogging isn't for me, and why I think it does more bad than good overall.
Blogging Saved My Life
Writing publicly and frequently for the past seven months has saved my life. Six ways consistent public writing transformed me: cultivating curiosity, building connections, investigating rabbit holes, starting new projects, creating accountability, and seeing life's patterns in real-time. An invitation for others to begin writing without restraint.
Episode #422: Why My Blog Is Still My Home on the Internet
In this episode, I take the Soulcruzer podcast out of the studio and into the fields. What starts as an experiment in mobile podcasting/vlogging turns into a wandering meditation on labels, blogging, AI, morning rituals, and the strange abundance of media tools we now carry in our pockets. https://youtu.be/g7AaOHgYLbM?si=-Ec5aSGcyY4qE-Ql Show notes: Why I still think...
Turning a Blog Into a Book
Wouter Groeneveld published a blog post on his blog, Brain Baking, titled The Archivist In Me Turned This Blog Into a Book. I have thought about creating a book from the millions of words I have published on The New Leaf Journal, so I read Mr. Groeneveld's article with interest. His project is along the...
Giving Defunct Blogs Proper Burials
Robert Birming published an interesting short blog post titled Where do blogs go when they die? He noted having noticed that many blog posts shared in recent years by participants in his Junited initiative are no more. From the outset, I agree with Mr. Birming that bloggers can end their blogs at any time and...
Beyond blogging platforms
A blog is a blog is a blog. At least that's what I used to think. In reality, it isn't quite that simple. Some people just blog and don't care about the machinery behind it. Others see the technology powering their site as an important part of the experience. I clearly belong to the second group. After years of more or less radio silence, I started writing regularly again last year. At the time I moved to Micro.blog and genuinely enjoyed it. But the longer I used it, the more time I found myself spending behind the scenes. I built plugins, tweaked workflows and started thinking about the platform almost as much as the writing itself. Like every platform, Micro.blog has its limitations. Over time, I realized that I was spending more and more energy working around them and optimizing things I could not even clearly define anymore. Almost out of nowhere, I moved everything to Bear Blog, which probably takes the exact opposite approach. Bear Blog focuses on the one thing a blog should…
Publish from WordPress to the open social web
FOSSE is a developer preview of a WordPress plugin that brings ActivityPub and AT Protocol publishing into one setup wizard and unified admin surface.
Introducing writer-cli: a bash tool I built from scratch to blog in the terminal!
After finding the tildeverse and the Tilde.town feels engine, I decided to build my own simple command-line tool for blogging that handles the full lifecycle of a blog post (creation, editing, building, and git push). A walkthrough of the design decisions, the modular architecture, and the tradeoffs of writing 700 lines of plain bash.
A Love Letter to Everything
My first IndieWeb Carnival entry—the theme is love letters, and I couldn't pick just one thing. A letter to the infrastructure that holds my corner of the internet together, to the strangers who maintain the open-source tools I depend on every day, and to the IndieWeb friends I've met over the past few months. And finally, to curiosity: the embarrassing willingness to fall in love with a static-site generator or a transit system or a protocol nobody's heard of, which I've come to believe is what kept me alive.
Feeds: a Minimal RSS Aggregator and Client
There are many like it, but this one is mine
This is not my first blog post.
In fact, if I ever decided to make a real tally, I think the result would be in the high hundreds. I have had a lot of different blogs over the years, in many different blogging platforms. I've witnessed the slow death of personal blogging and the birth of aesthetic curated posting, themes going from quirky and fun to the nauseatingly pervasive white clean aesthetic we see today. I've followed blogs from teenagers and witnessed them become adults with careers - some abandoning blogging altogethe...
Another blog on the internet
First post on the blog of Chris Parsons. Talking about why I want to write.
Consider this Ethical Publishing Stack and Workflow for your Site, Blog, or Newsletter
This article originally appeared on The Fulcrum. I published an article on Symfony Station (now sunset) years ago, titled Need a Writing Stack and Workflow for a Tech Newsletter or Blog?. It did not concern Symfony or PHP directly. However, it was still related. We wanted to be the best source for news on the...
Writers Who Burned All Their Words feat. Bix Frankonis
I am a compulsive archivist, terrified of losing my words, but many of history's greatest writers asked for theirs to be burned. Kafka, Dickinson, Plath, Virgil all had their reasons. A meditation on self-erasure, ego, and the difference between the writing and the written thing, with an interview with Bix Frankonis, a contemporary writer who one day decided he needed to be smaller online, not bigger.
A THOUSAND CRANES: Why I Write Every Day
My daily writing is a practice of releasing messages in bottles and folding paper cranes—from Montaigne in his tower and Johnson writing in poverty, to Sadako Sasaki folding 1,450 cranes in a hospital ward. What the essayists, drift bottles, and Senbazuru share, and why the attempt itself is the whole math.
Den Blog in die ATmosphere integrieren
Nachdem ich mich letzte Woche bereits ganz erfolgreich mit eurosky auseinander gesetzt habe und dadurch auch bereits die ATmosphere etwas besser kennen gelernt habe, bin ich nun noch tiefer in den Kaninchenbau gekrabbelt. Es war ja schon eine Entdeckung, dass es eben doch viel mehr gibt als eben "nur" Bluesky als Kurznachrichtendienst. Es ist also...
Great News: brennan.day is being acquired!
After MONTHS of hard, gruelling work being completely independent on my personal site, I've been lucky enough to find healthy, sustainable partnerships with several incredible companies. Today, I'm sharing some significant changes to how brennan.day operates—and what that means for you, my readers.
The Blogging Übermensch, or, Being the Luckiest Person on Earth
Exploring constitutive moral luck through Nagel and Williams alongside Nietzsche's Übermensch and amor fati, I reflect on the recursive gratitude I feel for who I constitutively am—and argue that blogging is a philosophical practice of self-overcoming: a daily, recursive Yes to existence.
My Blogging Workflow: A routine for nearly a post a day for 4 months straight.
A detailed look at my personal blogging workflow that has enabled me to write nearly a post a day for four months straight, including how I generate ideas, organize thoughts, and maintain consistency.
Aufgeräumtes Zuhause
Felix hat vor kurzem dazu aufgerufen, das man sich ein Zuhause im Netz baut. Mein Blog ist im Grunde schon seit 2002 mein Zuhause, auch wenn es viele Jahre gab in denen es brach lag und ich mehr als einmal mit dem Gedanken gespielt habe, es endgültig zu löschen. Zum Glück habe ich diese Entscheidung immer ausgesessen, auch wenn ich in der Vergangenheit nicht immer so egal unterwegs war. So wie bei Felix und vielen anderen auch, ist meine Webseite mein kleiner Hobbykeller im Internet, oder anders gesagt, eine einzige Dauerbaustelle. Man schraubt hier, man optimiert da und so gedeiht alles vor sich hin. Heute, während ich kränkelnd auf der Couch saß und mich frage, was die nächste belanglose Ablenkung auf Netflix sein kann, die einfach nur leise durch mein von Ibuprofen vernebeltes Hirn rieselt, habe ich mit etwas Abscheu auf eben jenen Hobbykeller geschaut. Im Second-Screen, wie man das eben heute so macht. Symbolbild Rumpelkammer (Foto: Mr. Brown, Unsplash) Dann kam die Erkenntnis:…
Introducing Sequoia: Publishing for the Open Web
A new CLI tool for publishing existing blogs to the AT Protocol
A Beginner's Guide to the IndieWeb for Writers Who Don't Code (But Maybe Want to a Little)
You don't need to be a developer to own your corner of the internet. A guide for writers, poets, and creators who want to escape algorithmic feeds and reclaim their digital presence. No computer science degree required.
Standard.site: the Publishing Gateway
Another deep exploration into ATProto and implementing lexicons
Resources for the Personal Web: A Follow-Up Guide
A guide to tools and resources for joining the independent web movement. Discover blogging platforms like Pika, search engines that prioritize small sites, directories for finding like-minded creators, and more.