It’s been nearly 3 years since my last update on this
Safe to say this took a while, I’d like to say I’ve been too busy to get around to it, but, that’s not the whole truth.
The whole truth is I lost interest in writing for the past few years, I still wrote for myself from time to time, but, didn’t want to publish anything publicly.
A few things have changed since then :
- The newsletter service I was using to send bookmarks (Revue) was acquired by Twitter and then shut down
- In the realm of javascript frameworks, Astro became a lot more popular than Gatsby
- Feedburner was shutdown
- Google analytics migrated everyone to their next version
- I’ve written basically nothing since
Well, here’s where I’m at :
- Bookmarks newsletter is gone for now, I have the data export and will be migrating that to a /bookmarks section on this blog and redirecting all old posts there - expect this to be done over this week
- Considering moving my reading updates back to this as well once I have the mailing list and service figured out instead of keeping it on Substack.
- I’ll also mostly be moving my ideas substack back to this. I don’t particularly find the utility of it over there, will be shutting that down later this week.
- Rebuilt this blog with Astro and a theme called AstroPaper, tweaked it a little bit, but, the overall look and feel were impressive out of the box
- Changed my newsletter manager from the old school feedburner to a self manager service, I haven’t started mailing posts out yet, setting that up using cloudflare workers later this week
- Migrated my google analytics
- Wrote this post
Well, one way or another, this is finally done.
Overall, I’m a lot more bullish on the engine that powers this blog than the previous one, more due to my ability to tweak this as opposed to jekyll.
So, welcome to my new blog, hope to restart writing this year.
Thank you for reading
Sainath