Back to the future
What is this place?
I've read a few posts here and there on bearblog and I assumed this was yet another place that tech adjacent people frequented. Like Posterous used to be. Only 'famous' person I recollect at the moment is Karpathy writing on here. In my 20s, whenever I wanted a fresh start, I'd create a 'blog'. I went from blogger (nee blogspot) to Wordpress to Medium to hosting my own site on github then eventually Squarespace. I also started a few substacks because I found the writing experience quite nice; minimalistic, no distractions, and WYSIWYG for the most part. Eventually my life became busy enough and subsequently uninspired enough that I had not much to share in general. Could also because of all the microblogging I was doing on Twitter.
Last night, for some reason, I figured I should give this place more than a cursory look. So I created an account. I found the themes to be cute and reminiscent of the internet of the aughts. That's the internet I grew up in.
I then bundled myself in bed and read a few posts I found on the discover feed. I was instantly transported to my blogger days. Wow! It felt intimate, refreshing, and almost like I was trespassing into a sacred part of the internet that still hasn't been taken over by LinkedIn thoughtfluencing and MBA-speak. It took me down a memory lane that I hadn't revisited in a long time. The familiar feeling of sitting at my computer desk and typing away with nary a care for whether this was read by anyone else was in-tact in some corner of my brain; one was momentarily very happy to dust off.
I think I'll like it here.