Words I wrote in 2018

I wrote just shy of a hundred blog posts in 2018. That’s an increase from 2017. I’m happy about that.

Here are some posts that turned out okay…

• Ends and means. The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
• Thanos. Avengers are wizards; Thanos is a prophet.
• Frustration. Applying the principle of least power to tools and technologies.
• The Gęsiówka Story. Republishing a forgotten piece of history.
• Robustness and least power. A tale of two principles.
• Preparing a conference talk. The four steps I took in putting together a presentation.
• Prototypes and production. Don’t build prototypes with a production mindset. Don’t release prototype code into production.

A lot of my writing in 2018 was on technical topics—front-end development, service workers, and so on—but I should really make more of an effort to write about a wider range of topics. I always like when Zeldman writes about his glamourous life. Maybe in 2019 I’ll spend more time letting you know what I had for lunch.

I really enjoy writing words on this website. If I go too long between blog posts, I start to feel antsy. The only relief is to move my fingers up and down on the keyboard and publish something. Sounds like a bit of an addiction, doesn’t it? Well, as habits go, this is probably one of my healthier ones.

Thanks for reading my words in 2018. I didn’t write them for you—I wrote them for me—but it’s always nice when they resonate with others. I’ll keep on writing my brains out in 2019.

Terence Eden’s Blog

A blog post can be a plain text document uploaded to a server. It can be an image hosted on a social network. It can be a voice note shared with your friends.

Title, dates, comments, links, and text are all optional.

No one is policing this.

Robin Rendle — Good and useful writing

The most important lesson that blogging taught me is that writing is for thinking first, communication last.

WriteFreely

I hadn’t come across this before: a barebones blogging tool with built-in fediverse support—neat!

“You can be a carpenter this time around.” – Lucy Bellwood

A personal website is a lovely thing. Nobody will buy this platform and use it as their personal plaything. No advertisers will boycott and send me scrambling to produce different content. No seed funding will run out overnight.

Word Persons and Web Persons · roytang.net

This resonates with me.