There are 3 reasons why I find it so much easier to blog here than I do on my “main blog” alttext.com.

1. Somewhere along the line I determined that I had things to say, but those things needed vetting, research, thoughtfulness. Who’s got time for that?

2. I also created a sense of audience that I had to consider, to please. This is pretty dumb given my current subscriber count. Maybe back in the day when I was pulling thousands of uniques a month, but certainly not in 2025.

3. Much of the time I just want to jot down a quick thought and share it—without the “pressure” the two points above allude to. I had been trying to figure out how to get short form posts integrated into Alt Text (as some had done on Ghost CMS) but it as just outside the amount of time I wanted to spend.

With micro.blogging here on BenEdwards.org I am freed of these things. Plus, I can wax poetically (read: longer) and it still works. Also, no one (almost) is reading this so ¯\(ツ)/¯

Still. I am hopeful that writing here, exposes some more desires to research and write over on alttext.com again. Perhaps even at a greater clip than once a year.