I appreciate your thoughts, and as you mention, my reply was as much (or more) about clarifying my own views as responding to yours.

Some of my thinking honestly comes from worry that if I make the barrier to entry too high for something I create, fewer people will engage with it. But this is much more about my own fears than any kind of “best practices” for coding. I’ve long struggled with blogging as on the one hand I love doing it, but on the other it’s easy for me to wonder “what’s the point?” if I don’t get a lot of engagement. I think it’s less about there being some ideal way to approach blogging and more just recognizing where I’m at in my life right now.

HTML standards have, believe it or not, gotten *much* better in the past 10+ years. I’ve worked with HTML (off and on) since the mid-1990s, and it used to be so much worse. Internet Explorer especially simply refused to follow any kind of standards, so you would basically have to do two separate pages to get any kind of consistency. As much as I hate Google’s monopoly via Chrome/Chromium, at least they generally keep things standards-compliant (as does Firefox).

Do you plan on mirroring your blog content here? Just wondering where the simplest place to read will be :)

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~inquiry wrote (thread):

> Some of my thinking honestly comes from worry that if I
> make the barrier to entry too high for something I create,
> fewer people will engage with it. But this is much more
> about my own fears than any kind of “best practices”
> for coding. I’ve long struggled with blogging as on the
> one hand I love doing it, but on the other it’s easy
> for me to wonder “what’s the point?” if I don’t
> get a lot of engagement. I think it’s less about there
> being some ideal way to approach blogging and more just
> recognizing where I’m at in my life right now.

I might have written that last sentence verbatim. :-)

> HTML standards have, believe it or not, gotten *much*
> better in the past 10+ years. I’ve worked with HTML
> (off and on) since the mid-1990s, and it used to be so
> much worse. Internet Explorer especially simply refused to
> follow any kind of standards, so you would basically have
> to do two separate pages to get any kind of consistency. As
> much as I hate Google’s monopoly via Chrome/Chromium,
> at least they generally keep things standards-compliant
> (as does Firefox).

I've suffered with HTML about as long as you. :-)

I vaguely remember having to do multiple pages. But back then it was sufficiently new and exciting to shrug instead of (now) throw hands in the air in a fashion risking shoulder injury.

And a lot of that is for the frustration resting atop the aforementioned non-engagement and "where I'm at". In the 1990s, I had all the time in the world. Now I have a wife that notices and wonders aloud why I'm a couple hours into grimacing at a screen whilst grass continues to grow, and I'm basically replicating said non-engagement with her. Attention is quite the elusive prize....

> Do you plan on mirroring your blog content here? Just
> wondering where the simplest place to read will be :)

Not in any consistent way, i.e. not all posts. Sometimes they feel Midnight Pub -ish, is all. Plus, I get in moods where I might create five posts in a day, and that feels well into the Midnight Pub "flooding" zone....