I saw these going around, but didn’t think I’d ever see myself get tagged — then Eric assuaged my FOMO. As I’ve done elsewhere talking about how I blog, I’m gonna try and impose a character limit to my answers (~240). I’m not sure if that makes my job as the writer easier or harder, but it should make your job as the reader easier. Why did you start blogging in the first place? I think I started because everything I learned about building on the web came from reading other people’s blogs online, so I wanted to be a “web person” like them. What platform are you using to manage your blog and why did you choose it? At the time of this writing (April 2025): I write in iA Writer. Code for my blog and notes is on GitHub. Deployment/hosting is via Netlify. I’ve arrived at this setup less from a combination of choice and evolution. As me and my writing evolve, my process and tools evolve too. Have you blogged on other platforms before? Blogspot, way back in the day. It’s no longer up, which is probably for the best. I was posting stuff I made from following “make this in Photoshop” tutorials. Or I’d practice trying to visually express silly puns. Or I’d make visual mashups of culture at the time. How do you write your posts? For example, in a local editing tool, or in a panel/dashboard that’s part of your blog? For a detailed history of changes on how I blog, I blog about blogging under #myBlog and I blog about microblogging under #myNotes. Read any of those posts for insights into my ever-changing process. When do you feel most inspired to write? When I read other people’s thoughts. Do you publish immediately after writing, or do you let it simmer a bit as a draft? I’m a simmerer. Rarely does a post go from thought to published in one sitting. For example, here’s a screenshot of my current simmering drafts (note my sophisticated editorial process of assigning each draft a letter prefix for sorting based on my appetite for finishing it). What are you generally interested in writing about? Stuff I make. Or stuff others make. Or thoughts I think while reading thoughts others think. I have a tags page that tries to capture what I write categorically — for example, I blog notes from books I read, and podcasts I listen to — but TBH it’s not the greatest taxonomy of my writing. Reductively: I blog about web design and development. Who are you writing for? Whoa, that question got me more introspective than I expected. Gonna move on before this becomes an existential crisis. What’s your favorite post on your blog? I used to highlight some of my favs on my home page, but I stopped. Choosing favorites is hard. My blog posts are like my kids: I love them all equally, lol. I suppose my favorite blog post is the one I’ll publish next. Any future plans for your blog? Maybe a redesign, a move to another platform, or adding a new feature? Will I redesign? Lol, the question is: when will you redesign? Tag ‘em Sorry if I mention someone who’s already been tagged: Piper Haywood — Love Piper’s mix of the personal and professional. Still have bookmarked to try grandma’s recipe. Tyler Gaw — Have loved and respected this dude since I met him at my first “real” webdev job in NYC. David Bushnell — Been enjoying David’s short- and long-form writing a lot as of late. Plus we feel the same about Deno & HTTP modules. Katie Langerman - Ah gotcha, that’s not a blog link. It’s Bluesky. But I’ve followed Katie on the socials and always enjoy her perspective. Not sure she has a personal blog, so this is a vote of confidence in her starting one :) Jan Miksovsky — Jan is doing really cool stuff with Web Origami (also just a super nice guy). Sorry, I’m not gonna ping any of these folks. If they read my blog, they’ll see their names. Otherwise, dear reader, consider it a suggestion to go subscribe to their stuff. Email · Mastodon · Bluesky

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Jack Johnson is on Rick Rubin’s podcast Tetragrammaton talking about music, film making, creativity, and surfing. At one point (~24:30) Johnson talks about his love for surfing and the beautiful flow state it puts him in: Sometimes I’ll see a friend riding a wave while I’m paddling out, and the thing I’ll see them do just seems like magic...I’ll think, “How in the world did they just do that?” And then on your next ride you’re doing the exact same thing without thinking but it’s all muscle memory and it’s all in this flow that you get into. That’s a really beautiful state to get into, to do something that feels like a magic trick, like something you shouldn’t be able to do, but all of the sudden you’re doing it. I’m not a surfer, and I can’t do effortlessly cool. But I know what a flow state feels like. Johnson’s description reminds me of that feeling when you get a little time on a personal project — riding the wave of working on your personal website. You open your laptop. You start paddling out. Maybe you see an internet friend who was doing something cool and you want to try it but you have no idea if you’ll be able to do it as well as they did. And before you know it, you’re in that flow state where muscle memory takes over and you’re doing stuff without even consciously thinking about it — stuff that others might look at and perceive as magic (cough anything on the command line cough) but it’s not magic to you. Intuition and experience just take over while you ride the wave. Ok, I’m a nerd. But I don’t care. It’s a great feeling, regardless of whether it’s playing an instrument, or surfing, or programming. That feeling of sinking into a craft you’ve worked at your whole life that you don’t have to think about anymore. Email · Mastodon · Bluesky

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