A cardinal sin of content marketing: Writing what you want the audience to have read
No matter who your audience1 may be – admins, developers, decision makers, or anyone else – they’re not obligated to read your content. It’s all about “what’s in it for me?” If you need to communicate something to an audience, you have to write what they want to read...
20 blogging and article prompts for tech bloggers
Stumped for ideas what to blog about? Not sure what people would want to read that would be worth writing about? Here’s 20 prompts to get you started (some tweaking may be required). Yesterday I wrote about the 100 days of blogging challenge. A friend of mine asked if...
100 day blogging challenge: Let’s get those RSS feeds going again
My Mastodon network is picking up nicely. It’s not quite reached the same level or variety of activity from Twitter, but it’s getting there. I wonder if there’s a chance we can revive actual blogging as well? I’m giving it a shot with a 100 day blogging “challenge” for...
20 and still Scrobblin’ – Last.fm at 20
The first song I ever “scrobbled” was, apparently, “Outdoor Miner” by Wire. That was 2006, several years after Last.fm made its debut. This year the service turns 20, having never quite lived up to its promise after being acquired by CBS. In its prime, Last.fm tried its hand at...
Sam’s holiday sweater
Update: Sam actually likes his sweater. Or, at least, it chills him out. He’s an anxious cat and gets really anxious when we have a lot of company over (as one does when it’s holiday season). He has a “thunder shirt” that chills him out substantially but it’s been...
Extremely minimal blogging with WriteFreely
Loving the explosion of IndieWeb activity. For fun I decided to try out WriteFreely, a really minimal blog with ActivityPub features....
Link-o-Rama: Stable Diffusion 2.0, Tragic birth of FM radio, story of goth
Before I’m in a turkey and carbs coma, thought I’d throw a few links into the void....
Shakespeare, yea or nay?
Is Shakespeare mandatory for a well-rounded secondary education? After more than 400 years, it’s reasonable to ask whether the canon is due for an overhaul, or to be chucked out of the window entirely....
How I got started with Vim
Yesterday I made an offhand comment about the long story of how I got started with Vim, so I figured I’d follow up today with that. That story takes us all the way back to 1999....
Is there a note-taking app that beats Vim, Markdown, and Git?
Usually I avoid post titles / headlines in the form of a question, but I’m genuinely curious: Have you found a good note-taking app that’s ultimately better than just plain text files in Markdown with Vim (optionally synced with Git)?...