> 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....

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~zampano wrote (thread):

Much of what you say here mirrors my own thoughts, and having less and less patience for having to do things myself. That said, I’m still a perfectionist at heart, so struggle with where these two things can conflict. This unquestionably contributes to all the unfinished projects lying around.

For your blog, I definitely understand. I’ll be sure to check in over there from time to time. I also have a solution for the legibility problem in the form of a browser extension. There’s probably more than one that serves this purpose, but in my case it’s RetroTxt (specifically designed for “properly” displaying ANSI art and text files in a browser). It definitely helps my aging eyes.