Latest in Blogging
Thanks for Blaugust
To everyone who joined me for Blaugust this year, For those who don't know what Blaugust is, it is Belghast's own challenge, one that a lot of bloggers look forward to every August.
The Word That Wore a Sailor's Name Tag
A post I stumbled onto the other day, A 450-Year History of Blogging by Brennan Kenneth Brown, gave me one of those "huh, wait" moments about halfway through. · 5 min read
Two Pages That Show Me How I Blog
Two blogs I came across recently have a page that shows their posts as a calendar. One I already follow, the other I found a few days ago while poking around the small web. · 4 min read
Turning 51 (Or 15, If You Squint)
Happy birthday to me. Today I turn 51. Or, if we're doing the math the fun way, flip the digits and I'm a solid 15. · 2 min read
Webmentions Were Here the Whole Time
Several other blogs I follow have webmentions, so I looked into what they were. I thought they were pretty cool. · 3 min read
Keep On Blogging
robertbirming. com said it better than I could. Funny timing too. · 1 min read
Why You Should Blog
There's a great piece over at shellsharks. com called You Should Blog that got me thinking. He's got a solid list of reasons in there too, worth reading on its own. · 6 min read
AuguStory - How I started a Blog
I am already in the middle of Blaugust this month, and then Robert Birming started something called AuguStory. Why not do both, I figured. · 7 min read
Titles, and What I Didn't Think About
Bloggers, can we make better titles for our posts? by Michael Harley On where I provide my unsolicited opinion about how you write posts on your blog. · 3 min read
600 Million Blogs and Counting
I saw a stat that stopped me for a second in a post by Manton Reece: there are over 600 million blogs out there right now. Not posts. Blogs. · 2 min read
Blaugust, Just for Fun
I found a post by Juha-Matti Santala about Blaugust and couldn't stop thinking about it. He writes to work through ideas in his head. · 2 min read
Simplifying the Home Page (Again)
I redid the home page again. I know, I know — I do this a lot. But this time it's actually simpler, not more complicated. · 2 min read
The Web Is My Playground
This hit me. Web development has always been my passion and hobby — not a side hustle, not a product. Just something I love to do. · 1 min read
A Big Refresh for Toby Geeks Out!
My last big update to the blog was back in April. Since then I've been quietly adding small things here and there, nothing major. · 5 min read
There's No Right Way to Blog, Just Mine
I read a post from Dan Q this week called You Don't Have to Blog Like Me, and I agree with every bit of it, 100 percent. · 2 min read
Yes, This
Jim Nielsen's post about blogging landed right after I wrote about dickovers, and it's basically why I bothered writing that post at all. · 1 min read
Today, Recent, Fading: The Inkwell Idea I Couldn't Leave Alone
So my RSS tab in Perch runs on Inkwell, Micro. blog’s RSS reader, using my micro. blog token. · 2 min read
Site Refresh: The Header Got a Glow-Up
I've been tinkering with the blog again. Honestly, I can't help it. The biggest change is the header. · 2 min read
Twenty-Two Years and Eight Platforms Late
Twenty-two years of blogging. Eight Nine platforms. More hiatuses than I care to count. · 1 min read
Two New Pages, One Productive Day
Back in February I installed the Newsletters plugin for Micro. blog — @manton’s own — and then completely forgot about it. · 1 min read
Why I built Perch...
I've been writing blog posts on and off for over 20 years. I survived the Blogger era, bounced around platforms, and eventually landed on Micro. · 9 min read
Been tinkering with two apps and they’re both coming together nicely. Perch is my custom Micro. blog client (books from my bookshelf, movies and TV from Trakt). Keep reading
A Few Weeks in the Geek Cave: What I've Been Building
The past few weeks have been less about writing posts and more about building the thing that holds them. · 6 min read
Finally upgraded to Hugo 0.158! Hit a small snag with an outdated plugin using a removed function, but updating the plugin to the latest version cleared things right up. Keep reading
Theme in Progress
Decided to build my own Micro. blog theme. A couple of days of tinkering in, still working through a few minor issues, but progress is being made. · 1 min read
Sunday Afternoon CSS Tinkering
So I spent my Sunday doing what normal people probably don’t do—obsessing over blog spacing. You know how it is. · 2 min read
Wrestling with Micro.blog
I’ve been in a full-on wrestling match with my Micro. blog theme lately. · 2 min read