Update 2026-01-04

After trying this out for a while, I’ve found that I added a new, potentially worse, friction: having to ask myself “…is this worth a blog post or should it just be a ‘journal’ entry?”

What I think I tried to capture was this concept of a “Twitter-like” impermanence to lower the barrier to sharing. But in practice, I’ve found myself hesitating to write anything at all… Now, “journals” are just regular blog posts with a “journal” tag. This keeps things simple and makes my blog feel calmer.

The thing I love most about social media feeds is the immediacy of capturing and sharing thoughts and ideas. Writing on my blog, being built with Jekyll, creates just enough friction for me to overthink what I’m sharing.

Inspired by Julia Evans’s TIL blog implementation, I’m hoping a dedicated page and a rake task removes enough friction for me to share more often.