Tag: blogging

• My commonplace safe space (July 30, 2025)

  Five months after my last post announcing the revival of my notes blog under a new title, I re-revive it with a new goal: a commonplace book, kept by and for me, but readable by the public. This is what can differentiate notes here from posts on Fogknife. To this end I’ve added a tags page, and will start tagging my ’Twas This posts as of right now.

• What’s this? (February 15, 2025)

  I spent last night reviving my old “notes blog”, intended for posts that feel too light for my main blog, but don’t feel quite appropriate for writing directly on social media, either. I started it as a lockdown project in mid-2020, and pursued it enthusiastically for only a few months thereafter. Something about the present environment moves me to return to it.

• A tasteful alternative to Amazon book links (August 31, 2020)

  I just learned that Micro.blog hosts a simple service presenting an attractive alternative to “just link to Amazon” when it comes to hyperlinking book titles. Here’s an example: https://micro.blog/books/9781501173219. The numeric part of the URL is the book’s ISBN.