#indieweb 2024-12-13
2024-12-13 UTC
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arekenaten How do you all balance posting on a blog or over time with learning as you go and fighting perfectionism?
# arekenaten I recently have been encountering examples of less traditional blogs without a chronological sequence but more fluid and topic based.
# arekenaten Wondering if that's a common tactic to getting over the intimidation factor of writing out loud
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# Moult arekenaten: imo don't be fixated on a 'blog' where articles are chronological and have to remain pure for posterity
# Moult just publish, and in the future if it's become obsolete or you realise you were totally wrong about what you published, delete it. or update the article. or delete and rewrite. like wikipedia.
# Moult the benefit of having a .html page is that 1) there is an indication of content-type prior to making the request, 2) by default those extensions can be served statically by any webserver without tweaks 3) you avoid having to do tweaks like canonicalising trailing slash
# Moult i serve .html on the www, .gmi on gemini, and .txt on gopher
# [Joe_Crawford] We've talked a bit about this in writing focused popup events. And it can be an impediment if we look at posting with a date as that thing being the final word on a topic. It can't possibly be a perfect post because things will change in the future.
# [Joe_Crawford] Some folks use a wiki style format to do their writing, which removes the date/deadline field.
# [Joe_Crawford] Some really like the "digital garden" idea - that the things we write are not _final_ in any real sense, it's a garden, with seasons, growing ideas, and some ideas don't grow fully, so can be removed and adjusted.
# [Joe_Crawford] Loqi, what is a digital garden?
# [Joe_Crawford] what is a digital garden?
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Loqi 🌱🪴 A digital garden is a particular practice of creating & growing an online and public IndieWeb presence that focuses more on topics & relationships than a timeline like blogs, has content of different levels of development, is imperfect and often a playground for experimentation, learning, revising, iteration, and growth for diverse content, perhaps interlinked with other digital gardens https://indieweb.org/digital_garden
# [Joe_Crawford] I have a post from this year about them that links to some other useful writing on the idea. https://artlung.com/blog/2024/02/28/digital-gardens/
# [Joe_Crawford] Drafts that linger can also impede you from writing something new. I can't write on _this_ if I already have an unfinished _that._ Which is why I liked Delete Your Drafts Day. https://aaron.jorb.in/leap-day-is-delete-your-drafts-day/
# [tantek]2 Oh hey did anyone unwrap a present today for the Gift Calendar?
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# Moult arkenaten i'd also encourage investigating whether you have other content on your site which isn't just a weblog. like an art portfolio, software page, photo gallery, book or music recommendation lists, none of these necessarily need dates
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