It is indeed excellent.
I canât speak for other techies, but I never want to be the âsmartest guy in the roomâ. Iâm neither inclined nor qualified to take on that role.
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Hereâs some stuff from the last couple of weeks.
Thereâs also a somewhat lewd political post that I wonât link here; you can find it easily enough if you want to read it badly enough.
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Re: Popovers in HTML, using HTML popover for footnotes us a clever idea. I actually use a HTML popover to implement the navigation menu of my website when it is viewed on mobile. I discovered HTML popovers and got the idea of using it for website navigation menu from @Ravenousâ website.
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The Weekly Wrap Up has been posted. My links section is usually fun or weird or cool but this week I thought it was important to post some links relating to my countryâs current situation.
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Thanks. I donât think I came up with it on my own, though. I just havenât been able to recall any blog posts I can cite as prior art.
I had thought of doing that as well, but decided against it for now.
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iâm trying to write shorter blog posts to remove the expectation of myself to write long essays, so this is a start. just some initial thoughts triggered by @drmollytovâs post: big techâs intentional creation of dependency
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I just dropped this.
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I def agree with your take on his blog post. I donât have much to say on that, but it did make me wonder, why would you want to make a blog for traffic anyways? (Over something like personal expression)
Millions of readers sounds like a nighmare, impersonal, overwhelming, and entitled. A few readers is nice, you can have real conversations and connections. I would never want my site, much less the blog on my site to attract large scale attention though 
I donât make money from it so itâs not like I want more readers for more money. Fame without the fortune? No thanks.
The blogger you referred to even has a blog post about how focusing too much on analytics detracts from making good human blog posts, so how does he not see that focusing on personal expression is more valuable than focusing on traffic, itâs almost the same idea?
My understanding, as somebody who used to run a WordPress.org installation, is that WordPressâ default SEO config is fucking abysmal.
As someone who has run both Wordpress.com and Wordpress.org installations for 15 years: âfucking abysmalâ is the most precise technical term for it, imo.
I also think that, since their adoption of block editing with Gutenberg, that blogging on WordPress has become a miserable fucking experience.
Block editing was the thing that tipped me from âthis is clunky but usableâ to â[insert sound of door not hitting my ass on the way out]â. I was willing to put up with a lot of annoyance (more than I should have, in hindsight), but the block editor directly interfered with the only thing I was there to do.
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Oh, so itâs not just me. Sometimes I wonder, you know? 'Cause I know Iâm not necessarily a reasonable person.
How are you liking Bear Blog, incidentally?
No kidding.
I mean, if I was running a paywalled newsletter I wouldnât say no to about fifty thousand people paying $5/year for something they could get for free over RSS. That would be a quarter million a year before taxes, and more than enough for me to quit my day job.
Of course, that would bring its own hassles, and I donât just mean taxes.
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I like it, but I donât know if Iâll stick with it long term. I have dreams of self-hosting my website on a Raspberry Pi. (One of my friends does - going to pick his brain when I visit this summer.)
I specifically like the lack of comments and analytics features. Without comments, people actually have to find one anotherâs email addresses and go to the work of sending emails, which seems to make them more deliberate and meaningful. Without analytics, thereâs no temptation to slide back into my âengagementâ habits on what is supposed to be a personal site.
Even if I do self-host, there will be no comments or analytics. Just the page and whatever nonsense comes out of my head.
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Andy had a post a few days ago that went viral. Itâs how I first came across his blog. (Iâve never seen that many upvotes on a Bear blog post before).
Not long after, he switched to Wordpress for a hot second, then posted this:
So, uh, heâs back to Bear from Wordpress.
PS: Matt hates Wordpress with the lowercase âPâ and this is just me being passive aggressive toward the âBDFLâ despite having never used the platform.
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Yeah, this is perfectly fine as a blog post.
Iâve been wanting a space for even shorter entries, so I created a scratch page on my site. (Just donât go there if youâre under 18, but if youâre under 18 you probably shouldnât be visiting my site at all.)
Each entry within a month is numbered, but not dated or titled. Sometimes itâs stuff that would fit in a Mastodon post, and sometimes itâs stuff that gets substantial enough to be worth sticking in my grimoire.
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omgâadding your book reads into a physical log is so cool!! thanks for sharing this. really dope that it helps with your bookshelf on your site :)
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Just a little something I wrote to get out of my own head!
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Iâve spent the past few days unraveling the saga of why I left the corporate/commercial Web after putting 20 years of my professional and personal life into it.
Tl;dr itâs way more than one blog post and Iâm still not done sorting it all, but at least I know one reason that was not why I left WordPress.
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None of these pages are available anymore it seems. Does anyone know what happened?