A fresh start
Web sites in general, and blogs in particular, all have to start somewhere.
This one represents a return to how I used to share things I'd found and learned almost 25 years ago.
I both read and wrote blogs in college and the years thereafter. In the scale of the blogosphere (despite any delusions of future grandeur I might have entertained), I'm a dust speck, so what sites I would read were usually way bigger in scope than anything I'd write.
Years pass, sites spring up, sites disappear, reading and writing tools come and go. We all learn new and better ways of doing things as we move through life. Some of it we can adapt to our existing work. Other times it's significant enough an improvement to merit starting over,
Social media has had no small impact on how we share, of course. We move from long form, to short form, to snippets, to images, to videos. There have been some pretty seismic changes to the social media sphere in the last year or two leading many to change how they use them. I'm not abandoning such sites outright, but it felt like a good time to put down fresh roots, and exercise some control over what sharing looks like from me.
Of the different manners of sharing and writing about links via blog, two of my favorites over the years have been Instapundit and Daring Fireball1. I'll never approach even the order of magntiude of their audiences (or even the frequency of their posts — in particular of Instapundit), but I'm looking to land somewhere in between their styles.
So, here I am. Milepost zero. The path lay ahead.
In fact, it was DF's reference to Simon Willison's post on link blogs that led me to the "own little corner of the Internet" post I cited on my home page, which did a significant chunk of the work of pushing me over the edge to get this started.↩