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.

I know I am only a few days into my micro.blog journey but the whole thing—from the tools to the community—feels very retro in the best possible ways. There are certainly things I have become accustomed to on other platforms—embeds/unfurling chief among them—but if I can relax and understand that many of those things don’t matter, I can find a lot to like here.

There is such a great community. Feels so insular and elite but in the best possible ways—like the early web did. Not like we are better than anyone, but that we found this secret place that is filled cool stuff. Like we are part of a community of people who care about the same core stuff but aren’t at all homogenous—we’re all bringing something to the table.

Combine this with the recent spirit of building that some AI tools have resurfaced in me, and I feel like I’m in a new renascence on the web. Excited.

Testing out posting from Obsidian. That would certainly streamline my blogging workflow.

Hoping this can be where alttext.com lives soon.