xkcd 1043

The times do change...:

Blogs were everywhere. Now they don’t even show up in search results unless they’re recipe blogs with a life story before the ingredients.

Put “cooked.wiki/“ before the url on the recipe with the life story. You’re welcome.
- Hah, yep. I use justtherecipe, but thanks, I’ll take another useful tool. I also use Umami, a firefox plugin on desktop.

How do I start a blog in the modern day.

I created a blog with Hugo (static site generator) the works off a git repo on gitlab (when the repo's updated it regenerates the site).
The only problem is that I don't have anything to say...
Look to something like wordpress.org or writefreely.org if you want to self host. If you want a free hosting platform, weirdly enough, blogger still exists, or you can use wordpress.com.
A lot of people use substack
- No thanks, I don't want to monetize, nor support its owners.
A bunch of markdown files, pandoc, sed, a server (php -S). That's all you need.
Alternatively, asciidoctor to replace markdown, pandoc and sed.
If you want to go fancy, please use a static site generator.
I previously used Tumblr. I wanted to start a photo blog, was researching WordPress.com, but since it's run by the same company anyway, I decided to just use Tumblr after all. Every time the site hickups, I go "certainly, Matt Mullenweg is somehow behind this."
I've yet to post properly on my development blog. If you use GitHub Pages, it uses Jekyll, which has blog support out of the box.

We started to talk about tweets instead

- Have you ever, like, microblogged the fediverse, man? It'll change your life, man!
Surprisingly, Tweet never went that high.
Twitter might have, but I didn’t bother.
- yellow is hard to see on my monitor. also i thought the legend said yellow was regret for a second and waas wondering where the spike was on the right

Remember blogs? I barely do

I remember when facebook was new there was a Julia Roberts movie about a lady who made a blog about cooking every recipe in a cookbook and the vibe at the time was "you can get famous too if you just blog well enough!"
- If that movie was made today it would be about a woman who made tiktok or Instagram shorts of making those recipes except it's those seizure inducing quick edit style videos and she's wearing something revealing and making eyes at the camera as she weirdly fondles the ingredients

The XKCD of decades past.

Rollover: Plus the reaction in the Tumblverse is always 'repeatedly get hit by a dog and fall down the stairs'.

I feel like North Carolina is somehow responsible for this.