Hey just putting together a blog to serve as the central spot for my online stuff.
Like many folks, especially within a certain age range, I've made various attempts at running a blog. Usually I've gotten a couple posts in, then a long time gap, then one more go at it, then years go by, before starting another one on another platform.
This time around I have been inspired by this great post which I found to be a nice bit of permission to just have a blog even if you don't do a whole lot with it. Pay a couple of bucks to have a spot online that is as much yours as anything online can be. Have some redundancy to the tidal rising and receding of social media outlets. Compel yourself to occasionally get under the hood of the internet to whatever degree.
Outside of this space most of my day-to-day personal online presence can be found on Bluesky under @derzquist.net. I use a similar handle on most places, but you won't find much recent activity elsewhere.
-Derz