Mikes Thoughts

11ty to Blot

I’ve been thinking on this recently. The primary thing is being able to fix something that might break on 11ty. I have been able to figure things out when something came up before. However vercel is an unknown to me. It is this step from writing to GitHub to publishing which I have no real knowledge of. With blot the number of steps and stops go down. I would likely use iCloud syncing since it means not installing any additional cloud apps. I often consider moving elsewhere.

I get this desire every so often to change things up. The writing though has become important to me. I want this place where I can just say my things. Feel the path is easy to go from idea to post. Now I have this simple workflow. I write in the journal and come across an idea. It becomes a wikilink and I can then write on it over some days. I also copy and paste something from the journal into a new markdown file.

I don’t want to lose the workflow. Or find myself messing with some web editor. This is the beginning and end for me. 11ty works a charm and blot can take the same files.

I saw this deal micro.blog has called micro.one. I been there before. I won’t go back. It never worked for me and the whole thing after awhile made me want to leave.

Choices almost

I wrote a few down that I could or could not do. There’s the default of just staying where I am. 11ty just works for me. I understand the basics with it. I could move to blot. That could take git out of things as well as vercel. I could move again to bearblog. I could not move to micro.blog. Can’t see that.

There’s no real time to make some decision. Some things easier than others. I just know at some point I will tire of GitHub and vercel. I don’t when that point is. I know some things get strange with it. U forget to pull the changes on my laptop when I publish on my iPhone. Then I get into a funk of remembering it is a moving part of things and the repo must be in good shape with pulls and pushes. So there’s the remembering like this morning to get things in the iPhone in working copy happy.

All this just adds little reasons to change things. But the real red light is I enjoy how I write now. The no subscription price and the feeling of ownership. So one offsets the other and I sit here with coffee. Watching the machinations of people across the street working. Ur cafe speaks to me. Tells me to just sit. Don’t make decisions. Cambodia does that too. Why decide anything today. What’s the point. I can just move to this.

Finally

So choice and change. It’s good to have one and the other is never ending. Will I or won’t I. Does it even matter? For me I know how this writing works now. The journals and where I find the catharsis. There’s no measurement. No analytics to tell me. Because I don’t care. So there’s no finally after all. There are just moments of nows. All sedately moving.

No need to choose 11ty or blot. I have it all now. I’ll just sit and wait out this feeling to change.