I have managed to keep this blog and my Mastodon Account around for longer than I had intended. My Pixelfed account and a couple of others have sort of fallen by the wayside but I’m pretty excited that I’ve not nuked these two yet.

I have had dozens of accounts like these through the years. The online presence, screaming into the public void. I pretty consistently feel exposed and/or vain after some time and then I dismantle them. Fortunately I have private archives of a lot (not not all) of the content.

After seeing 100DaysToOffload mentioned on the fediverse, I figured I’d try to take up the challenge. I would like to have a bit more of an online presence, especially if I can mix some technical posts in there. I really enjoy reading others’ blogs and musings. I also really enjoy the “small web” or the “indie web” or whatever we’re calling it these days. Less ads, less corporate interest, more content for content’s sake, more helping people, more ephemeral amusement.

I would also like to spend more time with my private personal diary. At the moment, I generally only dump negative thoughts into it to get it off my head. I would like to start treating it more like an inventory of my days. When I post here, I’m going to also try to make a private entry for myself while I’m at the keyboard.

Beyond that, I feel like more long form writing will help me focus and be more creative. It may not be perfectly edited (or edited at all) but it’ll give me some sort of outlet for practice.

So with that, I close post zero. Perhaps it’s cheating to have the first post be about posting? There will be greater variety over the next year if I manage to stick with this and not feel like I’ve over-committed myself to too many things.

#100DaysToOffload