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Reflections on running a self-hosted personal site in the year two thousand twenty-six

Yet again, a long drought between my last post and this one. Unusual for me in the reasonably recent past, now a common occurrence. I keep asking myself “why?”, why am I not posting as much when I loved it so much before?

Edit: Wow… I just realized my last post was almost a year ago.

While recently troubleshooting some bonkers bad bot traffic on an org website that I help maintain, I finally realized: It is getting a lot harder to maintain a self-hosted personal site. I’m seeing all of the same problems that org site is seeing, just at a slightly smaller scale and with less visibility since I haven’t had client-side analytics since late 2020.

Picture the scene.

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Thoughts on search, AI as a rubber duck, and this blog

I’ve been working on a little side project recently that has been in the backlog for ages. I finally have a moment to pull it together, and it’s helping me brush up on a few Next.js 13 features I haven’t had the chance to play with yet.

As part of that, I’m doing a lot of searching around best practices on this that and the other, particularly server side rendering. It’s the first time in a while that I’ve been pointedly trying to use the internet to teach myself something in-depth related to coding, as opposed to finding quick sporadic answers.

Read some rambling thoughts on search 🔍, AI as a rubber duck 🦆, digital gardens 🪴, and the future of this blog 🧠