Published June 17, 2025
This is not my first blog. This is not my second blog. I'm not even sure if it's my third or fourth one. I'm just saying that to point out that this isn't my first foray into blogging.
This is, however, the first blog that I own it all myself, soup to nuts. My previous blogs had all been running on someone else's software, on someone else's server (OK. Fine. This is running on someone else's server because I'm not crazy enough to deal with self-hosting when there are professionals who can do it much better than I can.)
This is also the first time that I have no comments section. No method of acquiring feedback through the site itself. That means that this is the first time I'm really blogging for myself. The other times I did it I looked at metrics like page views; how many comments and were they good. I worried that people weren't seeing what I was writing. I worried about what people thought about what I was writing.
This time it's different. This time I'm blogging for myself. This time the only one that matters is me. That's not to say that I don't want you to read these words. That's not to say that I don't find there is value in feedback (reach out to my on the socials, links on the bottom, if you want to share some.) What it means is that without anything to tell me if anyone is reading this I feel freed from pressure. I don't feel a pressure to write something for the sake of writing it; I can write when I feel I have something to say. I don't feel a pressure to conform to what people might think I should be saying or how I should be saying it; I can say what I want to, how I want to.
This time I'm blogging for me. I hope you read it. I hope you find value. I hope that you reach out to me on the socials and give me feedback. But that's not the point this time. This time I'm doing it for myself and that's what matters.