On Simplifying More
Over the last few years I have slowly been simplifying the way my personal website works. Late last year, the last of that work shipped - I removed MDX and frontmatter in favor of plain Markdown files. The goal was to reduce friction when writing posts; for a while I wasn’t writing as much as I intended. Things like the Weekly Roundup flamed out, and yearly posts decreased. I wanted to remove roadblocks that were preventing me from writing frequent posts.
A lot of authors I respect have talked about similar journeys. Their posts inspired me to apply the same ethos to this site, and so far I think it’s working. I’m also consciously trying to write shorter posts; not everything needs to be long!