Muskblog: Homesteading the Internet since 1995

Once again it took way longer than I would have liked. Once again the common denominators are PHP and people who say look, here is my code, it does this, it just works, use it… Then when you write them informing them it doesn’t work they say “Oh I wrote that two years ago, I don’t [...]

I’ve actually already written more than one thousand blog postings, but some have been removed and some were posted elsewhere. There isn’t a prize for spending this much time online, but there is probably a badge for it over on Foursquare. As I noticed this somewhat dubious milestone approaching I figured I should mark the [...]

As my job search drags on, I decided to retroactively edit a pile of old blog posts. This blog has been going, for better or for worse, since 2005. I’ve been maintaining a home page online since 1995. Sometimes you have to devote time to maintenance. This used to mean link checking and fixing busted [...]

The other day I once again tried to pass on what is truly important if you want to have longterm success writing online. Whether you blog or not, whether you use Facebook or Twitter or some other niche social network, certain fundamental truths hold. Ninety percent of everything published online is crap. You have only [...]

Notice I wrote “self publishing” not “blogging”, the world wide web always had the concept of self publishing and user created content. Everyone was supposed to learn HTML and have a home page. It is only with the rise of blogging, social media, and various web services that self publishing has become so easy that [...]