Tag: Writing
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...
Blogging Thru It #1: Starting Things
There are a lot of posts that I wanted to throw out on Bluesky, but there are thoughts that I just instantly post about (as god intended) that just deserves more cooking in the oven. My solution? Making all my thoughts that could have been threads dabbed into a series of blog posts. I'm not sure if this is going to be a staple on my Pckt or my Leaflet, but just know that my bullshit is going to be in the ATmosphere somehow! So let's get started! I mentioned this before in a recent update in the ...
Ghost CMS
Some thoughts on Ghost after trying it out for approx. 10 minutes.
Blogs not about anything
I no longer want to read about the latest developments in the CSS Working Group and now only want to read about bike trips that people have gone on or stories that happened years ago.
Start a Blog With Ghost & PikaPods
Start writing now with a Ghost blog on PikaPods! This guide takes you through all the steps for a production-ready Ghost install, complete with newsletter support.
#100DaysOfWriting
In googling for a stock image to put at the top of today's post, I discovered there's already a #100DaysofWriting movement. Apparently it's quite popular! The whole thing is based on showing up to the page with curiosity and gentleness. 'Showing up' can look like whatever you want. Five minutes of note scribbling? That counts. Research reading? That counts too, just as much as writing 1000 words. The point is regular connection without judgement. These people think it's okay to "set reasonable
What To Do When You Have Writer's Block
I am committed to writing on this blog every day for another ~77 days, and often I don't really have any good ideas about what to write. I usually think of writer's block in the context of, like, a tortured genius struggling to write their novel, not a Brooklyn dipshit who can't think of anything to post on his blog, but I guess it happens to all kinds of writers. Writer's block is tough for everyone, but I think I've cracked it: I've been developing a ten-step process for dealing with it when i
On 100 Days of Making
I am now on day 10 of 100 days of writing, and it occurs to me that I haven't actually explained what this is or why I'm doing it. This is a practice I've done at least once a year since 2022, and has proven itself over and over to be one of the best things I can possibly do for myself, so not writing about it yet seems like a bit of an oversight. 100 Days Of Making is pretty much what it sounds like. You pick a thing (preferably a creative one) and produce a variation on that idea or theme eve
Eleventy Tricks
Some useful snippets for a better time with the Eleventy framework.
Writing about writing
Lots of writing about writing lately: the purpose of blogs, writing for yourself vs. others.
Depersonalized Diary
For this week’s meditation, I decided to do a digital form of automatic writing to channel the dead — in this case, specifically a former…