When I was in college I used to read Dave Winer's Scripting News. I'd read his DaveNet email newsletter, and his Wired column of the same name. The term "blog" did not exist yet, but I knew I wanted something like Scripting News. I wanted it for my college paper, where I was an editor (eventually the editor in chief), and I wanted it for myself. #
Recently, amid a lot of toxicity on Twitter, and feeling the need for some kind of outlet in my middle age (midlife crisis blogging?), I started to look for a way to blog in that Scripting News style, where you don't need to give everything a headline like on most blogging tools, and where it's wired up to a good easy authoring environment, like an outliner. But also where you can give more depth and context than on $#%ing Twitter. I didn't really find it and made some plans to build something myself some day, maybe, eventually....#
Then I saw Dave has a new tool, built to write Scripting News style. I saw this.... on Scripting News. Which is 25 years old, give or take!#
Today, I finally have it for myself. Two decades in, I can blog like Scripting News. Cooool.#
There is a big temptation for computer geeks like me to bikeshed — I think that word means, like, faff around — with blogging software. Like when I started to learn about tis new tool, Drummer, I started thinking thoughts like#
Can I make a new name for the blog, not just "blog?"#
I'm sure I can and will "fix" some of this stuff in time. But also, who &$(*ing cares? For my ego it would be nice if it was on ryantate.com with a custom image blah blah blah. But I'd waste a lot of time and energy instead of just writing. So today I tried just writing. I think it went pretty well. Whether the writing is any good or interesting to anyone is another question. But at least I didn't faff around with tool sh*t. I wrote. I used the blog tool to blog. Mission accomplished.#
PS My other blog (prior blog?) is here. Even older posts are here.#
PPS I did eventually figure out how to make a new name for the blog.#
PPPS Dave says the answer to the questions above is "yes" for each.#
When I was in college I used to read Dave Winer's Scripting News. I'd read his DaveNet email newsletter, and his Wired column of the same name. The term "blog" did not exist yet, but I knew I wanted something like Scripting News. I wanted it for my college paper, where I was an editor (eventually the editor in chief), and I wanted it for myself. #
Recently, amid a lot of toxicity on Twitter, and feeling the need for some kind of outlet in my middle age (midlife crisis blogging?), I started to look for a way to blog in that Scripting News style, where you don't need to give everything a headline like on most blogging tools, and where it's wired up to a good easy authoring environment, like an outliner. But also where you can give more depth and context than on $#%ing Twitter. I didn't really find it and made some plans to build something myself some day, maybe, eventually....#
Then I saw Dave has a new tool, built to write Scripting News style. I saw this.... on Scripting News. Which is 25 years old, give or take!#
Today, I finally have it for myself. Two decades in, I can blog like Scripting News. Cooool.#
There is a big temptation for computer geeks like me to bikeshed — I think that word means, like, faff around — with blogging software. Like when I started to learn about tis new tool, Drummer, I started thinking thoughts like#
Can I make a new name for the blog, not just "blog?"#
I'm sure I can and will "fix" some of this stuff in time. But also, who &$(*ing cares? For my ego it would be nice if it was on ryantate.com with a custom image blah blah blah. But I'd waste a lot of time and energy instead of just writing. So today I tried just writing. I think it went pretty well. Whether the writing is any good or interesting to anyone is another question. But at least I didn't faff around with tool sh*t. I wrote. I used the blog tool to blog. Mission accomplished.#
PS My other blog (prior blog?) is here. Even older posts are here.#
PPS I did eventually figure out how to make a new name for the blog.#
PPPS Dave says the answer to the questions above is "yes" for each.#
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