💭 Thoughts

Welcome to the Thoughts section of my blog. Thoughts are better kept on my blog than on Twitter or other online platforms.

Refactoring your personal software projects

Published on 2021-03-30 in 💭 Thoughts

Colin Walker is trying to refactor his blogging software to make it available to others. Regarding whether anyone else will end up using it, he writes:

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Two years jlelse.blog

Published on 2021-03-27 in 💭 Thoughts

Updated on 2021-03-27

Two years ago today, I registered jlelse.blog and merged my different blogs into one. Since then, I definitely blog more and now use the blog instead of posting on siloed platforms as well. It has definitely paid off. And the domain is already renewed for another two years.

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Ghost 4.0

Published on 2021-03-22 in 💭 Thoughts

Updated on 2021-03-22

This thread and comment in the forum of the blogging platform Ghost show me, that it was the right decision to not use Ghost anymore since 2018.

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What matters when Blogging

Published on 2021-03-12 in 💭 Thoughts

If you’re running a personal blog, then it doesn’t matter how often or how much you blog. I think these points are much more important:

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Private diary blogging!

Published on 2021-02-27 in 💭 Thoughts

After I had the spontaneous idea to just use my own blog software for diary writing, I added the functionality for a “private mode” this morning. In private mode a login is required on all pages.

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Private diary blogging?

Published on 2021-02-25 in 💭 Thoughts

I have tried this journal writing already more than once, but after quite a short time always stopped again, mostly just because it was too much effort and I did not persevere.

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