Second post of 2022 wooo

I haven’t been blogging a lot — since the pandemic, really — and my posts have been more focused on the technical rather than on the details of my life. But given the recent collapse of Twitter, I revisited the notion of self-publishing. This blog post made the rounds on Mastodon (yes, I’m on Mastodon), and I resonated with the following:

You are pouring your words into increasingly closed and often walled gardens. You are giving control – and sometimes ownership – of your content to social media companies that will SURELY fail.

Scott Hanselman, Your words are wasted

As if the Universe wanted to reward me for scratching that itch, I recently regained access to my Flickr account that had all of my old blog photos, and I found my blog backups that in theory should date back to 2005 — the year I started this blog.

Now that I’m older, I know I don’t have the same appetite for “being online” like I did when I was 16. But I want to attempt to re-unify all of the parts of my online presence, even if it’s just gathering the pieces for myself and not publishing them back out to the world.