Like a microblog of little learnings in day-to-day development.
One interesting thing that occurred to me recently is that my personal site (https://amontalenti.com) is more an essay archive and identity verification tool, than it is a “blog” or “microblog.” That is, the timestamps of the content on there are the least interesting thing about it. The most valuable page, for me, is https://amontalenti.com/archive.
As for something like /now, the most fascinating implementation of this is an old friend of mine from college. He and I were both early 2000s bloggers, but he came up with the idea, in 2001 or so, to keep a nearly-daily one sentence personal diary on his blog. He kept that up for the last 20+ years (he is nowadays a CS researcher and inventor in HCI). Very impressive near-daily microblogging habit over a lifetime!
Great examples, thanks for sharing all of them! Love Chris’ real life commits messages. Find them very nice just to get general overview of what was going on in your life at the time.
https://til.simonwillison.net/
Like a microblog of little learnings in day-to-day development.
One interesting thing that occurred to me recently is that my personal site (https://amontalenti.com) is more an essay archive and identity verification tool, than it is a “blog” or “microblog.” That is, the timestamps of the content on there are the least interesting thing about it. The most valuable page, for me, is https://amontalenti.com/archive.
As for something like /now, the most fascinating implementation of this is an old friend of mine from college. He and I were both early 2000s bloggers, but he came up with the idea, in 2001 or so, to keep a nearly-daily one sentence personal diary on his blog. He kept that up for the last 20+ years (he is nowadays a CS researcher and inventor in HCI). Very impressive near-daily microblogging habit over a lifetime!
https://www.chrisharrison.net/index.php/Home/Log