Today's publishing round added 29 articles across 19 sites, covering photography, posters, travel, history, food, home offices, container conversions, AI security, infrastructure, software and geographic domains. It began with a list of ideas and became a complete run of…
Busy morning. Nineteen new posts went up across nineteen sites today, from Gulf tanker insurance to the right milk ratio for a cortado. Here's the…
Posterial.com is where I am taking some of my photographs after the usual editing is finished. A street scene can become a field of strong color, a…
Set up a publishing plan for the whole network this morning. One file, sitting in the root of this site's repo, never built into the site. It lists…
I have been building in several directions at once, which makes a general project update awkward. A page of names does not tell you much about what…
I ran the publishing plan again today, this time for three posts. The queue was empty, so the selection came from the weighted draw. The result took…
Sixty-six sites, 16.43k visits, down 13.89% week over week. That is the headline number on the Cloudflare report for August 23 to 29, and it is wrong…
The default assumption in publishing infrastructure is that content requires a database. WordPress, Ghost, Drupal — every major CMS reaches for SQL…
Every managed publishing platform makes the same implicit offer: we will handle the infrastructure if you accept our constraints. The constraints are…
Cloudflare Pages occupies an unusual position in the hosting landscape. It is a CDN-native static host with a build pipeline, a generous free tier…
Markdown was designed in 2004 by John Gruber as a plain text format that reads naturally and converts cleanly to HTML. It has become the de facto…
Content management systems typically implement version history as a database feature. WordPress stores post revisions as additional rows. Ghost…
In a traditional CMS, publishing is a button. The content exists in a database in draft state. Clicking publish changes a field. The post is live…
RSS was declared dead several times in the decade following Google Reader's shutdown in 2013. The declaration was premature. The protocol never…
There is a version of minimal tooling that is ascetic for its own sake — a refusal of complexity as a philosophical position. This is not that…
Pagination is a solved problem that publishing systems continue to solve badly. The common failure mode is pagination without context — previous and…
