About a year ago I decided it was time to stop “rolling my own” blog software and port things over to a modern web framework and server architecture. After I did this something changed.
I virtually stopped blogging.
The reason for this is that it became more work to write and post entries, and the computers I could use to do so became more limited. I could no longer write a blog post on my phone, and this was a problem for a number of reasons.
Most of the time I spend in front of a full-sized computer is not my own, and when I do have computer time to use as I choose, I spend it working on personal projects (when I have the energy to do so). This means most of the time I find for myself is away from general-purpose computers and full-sized keyboards.
On top of this it is increasingly difficult to get photos taken with my phone onto the computers I now needed to use to create blog posts. What took an instant before (attaching a photo to an email) now took much longer.
The result is a lot fewer posts, and the ones I managed to make were rushed or otherwise of lower quality than from years prior.
I stopped using preposter.us for a few reasons but one of them was that I made several attempts to “modernize” it which failed, and I felt like maybe this was a sign that it was time for me to get out of the blog software game. But what is worse, running a blog on “outdated” software or a blog that is so hard to use that it never gets posted to?
(I’m going to write more about “good enough” software in the near future)
So today I decided to switch back to preposter.us. Let’s see how that goes.
I virtually stopped blogging.
The reason for this is that it became more work to write and post entries, and the computers I could use to do so became more limited. I could no longer write a blog post on my phone, and this was a problem for a number of reasons.
Most of the time I spend in front of a full-sized computer is not my own, and when I do have computer time to use as I choose, I spend it working on personal projects (when I have the energy to do so). This means most of the time I find for myself is away from general-purpose computers and full-sized keyboards.
On top of this it is increasingly difficult to get photos taken with my phone onto the computers I now needed to use to create blog posts. What took an instant before (attaching a photo to an email) now took much longer.
The result is a lot fewer posts, and the ones I managed to make were rushed or otherwise of lower quality than from years prior.
I stopped using preposter.us for a few reasons but one of them was that I made several attempts to “modernize” it which failed, and I felt like maybe this was a sign that it was time for me to get out of the blog software game. But what is worse, running a blog on “outdated” software or a blog that is so hard to use that it never gets posted to?
(I’m going to write more about “good enough” software in the near future)
So today I decided to switch back to preposter.us. Let’s see how that goes.