Monday February 9, 2026; 4:44 PM EST
- This site is not my blog, I view it as public access to a set of notes. I do my writing here using Drummer and so long as I can access Drummer I can get to my notes. Problem is, Drummer works best in a desktop browser so I have found it easier to access my notes via the "standard" web server. I don't know how many people beyond myself read what I write here, so what I write here it is for an audience of one. #
- I have been using Dave Winer's products since 1999 and I have learned the lessons of what it means to use his products. Dave is a developer and not a hosting provider, so I understand the main risk of using his web apps is that they can go offline at any time and may never return. I am diligent about downloading copies of the files I create in Drummer and I have a copy of Electric Drummer on my Mac to enable me to open the files should Drummer ever go offline for good. I could mitigate this issue further by learning and using Dave's outlining source code, concord. #
- When I found that I could not publish to this Drummer blog I created a work around by creating a new OPML file in Drummer, creating a public link for that file, and then enabling access to that OPML file using my own instance of pagePark, which I had set up a few years ago to "publish" my other outlines like the books I read. #
- PagePark is a web server that can serve markdown and OPML files as well as HTML. It supports templates but I like the default way it renders OPML files. The simplest approach is using one OPML file for one HTML page/site, so while the Drummer blog version of my Daynotes renders separate pages for each day, the PagePark version of the Daynotes keeps a page of posts all on the same day. I can set collapse attributes to node headers to keep a web page from getting real long, and for now I am collapsing each month. #
- So now that this Drummer "Old School" blog is back online, do I stick with my single outline or revert back here? I am not entirely sure, I am leaning toward keeping the single outline just because the web server access to it is under my control although the source OPML files are stored on Dave's drummer.land host. #