Tuesday, 21st April, 2026

So thinking of using micro.blog for my main site…last time I replaced this site with it but it didn’t last. Micro.blog has some shortcomings but overall it’s pretty good. I’m not interested in the new inkwell RSS reader (good job as I’m on the micro.one version and so don’t get it) and maybe other things being made but for a hosted blog it’s pretty good. Adding images is a bit of a method (pika is so easy) but it’s not that bad.

I think replacing this site was the mistake. This is my daily waffle, navel gazing, complaining, therapy session, idle thoughts noone is really interested in. Whereas the other site is more for stuff I’ve actually done. Plus I have more attachment to this site as I built it from scratch. It’s not a theme and a SSG and away I went, and I kept missing it and the “maybe I’ll add more to it”.

I’ve not changed DNS yet but I was thinking about it last night whilst using micro.blog and remembering all the things. I’ll think about it today but it feels like a low hurdle to overcome: a site that I’ll actually write stuff in vs. one I don’t.

A reason I took away the archive and only keep x number of posts on the page here is often I don’t want to remember what I wrote. It got written that day to be said. Micro.blog doesn’t need that. Maybe this stuff should be private anyway. 🤫

The only thing that will nag at me is “it’s not self hosted, what about backups, I could make the site, why am I paying for this (luckily it’s $10 per year so that shouldn’t come into it).” If pika was $10/year I’d be using it immediately. Anyway, it doesn’t matter a jot if I change my mind again. Just have to install all the apps on my phone again.

(Also if I had a Neo I could use the micro.blog client or mars writer (w/e) to add content).

Work doesn’t like git, so that decides the obsidian thing and sync etc. I’d still like to access my work notes outside of my work laptop, and so probably just going to use OneNote. It’s not cool, if note taking is ever considered cool, it’s just a blank page for me to write notes and then find them later. And really, I should apply the same approach to my personal notes.

Now it’s evening and I’m not 100% sure about micro.blog. (There’s a surprise).

I found some notes from 2021 where I’m trying to make the same decision about micro.blog. Five years ago and I still have the same issues.

Pika has added search, which is nice, although not something I’d noticed was missing. I find it funny how I get so worked up over £4.50 a month - and agonise over subscribing to pika because of it. I think it’s also as I look at the $60 number. I go to the supermarket and spend more than £4.50 on snacks. There’s also me not controlling everything - even though if I dig deep enough then I don’t control everything on most of my sites. I don’t host it at home, it’s still some vps or cdn or whatever. It just doesn’t cost anything. It’s also the principle of paying for it. But, these days I don’t want to bother hosting things or looking after stuff.

Still consider binning it all. Just don’t bother and then I don’t have to worry. Just keep my radio blog, but maybe add a few non radio posts for stuff.

Made a list of my web apps I use / need. Not actually that many and so thinking of consolidating onto a small VPS or maybe even just a pi at home. Whilst doing this, I thought about photos backup. This uses about 800GB. I wonder if I can cut that back by culling a bunch of photos I don’t need. Quite the job to do it.