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Blogging in Context

I've decided to take a slightly unconventional approach to blogging in this new site. I decided to have just one long markdown file for each year, and I will just add new posts on the top of that file.

There are a few benefits to this approach that I really like:

It's easy to blog in context because I see all the older posts in the same file
The markdown file *makes sense* by itself without any blogging platform

Obviously, there are some downsides as well:

Difficult to link directly to a single post (using hash based linking is ok)
Sharing a single post in social media can be tricky and platforms will pick up wrong content for preview
Cannot create alternative representations of the content like RSS feeds

Especially the lack of RSS feeds bugs me, but I still think that, for me, the pros outweigh the cons. It feels so nice and simple to just write in a text editor and see all my older posts in the same file. Most markdown editors support previewing and the preview looks like a blog should.

Here's the gemtext content file for this blog.

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August 21, 2023

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