🔗 Why I write and why I won’t – Remy Sharp°

He says that one of the benefits of sharing your thoughts or solutions on your blog is that they’re very easy to find again thanks to search engines.

I’d never really thought about that. Search is difficult. I’m unsatisfied with the search function of nearly all software I use.

And whilst Google isn’t what it once was it will probably still be better at finding something I’ve written on the web than Obsidian will be at finding something I’ve written in my notes.

🔗 Stream on

Simon Collison has written about having a longer form blog and also a short one.

A primary motivation for creating my Stream was the paralysing sense that a blog post needed appropriate length and weight.

I understand that feeling well. I am always too aware of my audience when I write. To the point that anything too short or off topic feels like I’m wasting their time. As a result I have created way too many blogs down the years (and I still maintain too many).

So I’ve found my recent discovery of Micro.blog very freeing. I don’t care too much on here. I just share what’s on my mind. No matter how short, long or off topic.

Continuing on from yesterdays post about preserving your websites once you die Derek Sivers has the idea of the Hundred Year Host. It’s just a concept right now though.

At least once a week I think about what’s going to happen to my websites once I die. Within a month or two they’ll probably disappear, which upsets me.

What can I do to avoid that? It shouldn’t be too difficult. All my sites are static, aside from Learnt.me which is put online via Obsidian Publish. But Learnt.me is probably the site I’d like to remain online the most after I die.

WordPress now offers their 100-Year Plan. But it’s $38,000.

NearlyFreeSpeech is pay-as-you-go. So I could conceivably top up my account with as much as I could afford and it should last a while (assuming they stay in business).

My current sites are largely on Amazon S3. So as long as there’s an active card to pay the $3-4 monthly pay it should keep working for many years.

But ideally my Will gives some instructions and some money for preserving my digital legacy. And one of my more tech-y friends could carry it out.

I don’t plan on dying any time soon. But it would be good to put a plan in place.

Finally getting around to watching the Apple WWDC keynote. Favourite new thing thus far? You can now finally see everything but screenshots in Photos. I’ve wanted this for so bloody long.

Reddit is a much more pleasant place once you start blocking certain words and subreddits.

I still miss app.net techcrunch.com/2017/01/1…

I am pleased to report that Uber/Deliveroo now lets you add extra patties to your Five Guys order. About time! 🍔

I began tagging emails as ‘not important,’ but soon realised I was labelling 95% of them that way. Turns out most of the email I get isn’t very important.