I spent some time this week moving this site from WordPress.com to a self-hosted WordPress instance. As part of that process I ended up reviewing this blog which has content going back from 2011.
The older content is a lot of code snippets, and plugin releases which has me thinking about how the internet has changed so much over the past 15ish years. We have moved to systems like GitHub and Reddit and that long form blogging is mostly a thing of the past. I understand the appeal of having all the content in one place, but it brings back the age old question of who owns and controls our data.
For me, I remain a fan of open technologies (like git itself) and plan to bring back this blog. In fact, the process revealed I have lots of posts in draft form here, so more to come, stay tuned!