honestly… whoa. the truth is i was never a huge google reader guy and in my own "heyday of personal sites", my routine was to… click through my blogroll? or bookmarks?

and i think now i'm following at least 4x as many sites as i did then. which is something i never thought i'd see. not to be all Numbers or Wow Quantity! about it.

however. please 😮‍💨 at me if i am only ever posting about computer or website. to lightly paraphrase something a friend pointed out… the real tragedy of october 1 is that a lot more of the people who i will be seeing online in this way will be… computer touchers. programmers. (although now that i say this: it would be interesting to do a little audit of my actual blogroll. because i can think of Several who are not this.)

setting up this site was not too hard, but i've set up websites before: and the thing i know about my last site is that despite my best intentions, i did Not blog or post on it. and i've gone through some trouble this time around to meet every point of friction around that head-on. (one current point of friction: i cannot currently save a draft.) and i'm not pleased with the amount of friction i've run into! and i'm a little pleased with what i've been able to do to mitigate that, but it's a bittersweet sort of pleasure, since… boy did it take a lot of prior knowledge to address some of these things. and i want to share what i've done, but i also don't want to be a public code maintainer either. well. i'll figure something out.

this is the part where i'd put this in drafts if i had yet implemented a little "draft" toggle :) instead i'm gonna yeet it. ["let's post" voice] let's yeet