I’ve been a mostly absent blogger for the past few years. I could make excuses. They might sound like, “I was busy finishing my dissertation!” or “I founded a company and have a toddler!” or “The static site generator I used was abandoned!” Whatever they might be, these excuses would certainly end in exclamation points.
But, ultimately, for several years it just felt like blogging was dead. Its space was usurped by Tweets, LinkedIn hustle posts, long form Medium content aimed at attracting talent, and other content trends. RSS feeds dried up bit by bit. That beautiful structure somewhere between a college essay and an academic preprint mostly ceased to be. Sad times, indeed.
That trend seems to be reversing. I don’t know whether it’s the result of nudges from Substack, or that all the introverts in tech finally gave up baking pandemic, but there is a lot of good content out there again! Fire up your RSS aggregators and get reading.
This post is my own reboot of “adventures in optimization,” a blog I’ve written intermittently since 2009. Unfortunately, it will take some time to move over all my old posts to Hugo. I’ll do that slowly as I create new ones. For now, I’ve ported over a couple early posts and put together a list of the active blogs I’m gleefully catching up on.
See you soon!