Blankbaby

As readers of this blog may have noticed, I didn’t blog a whole lot last year (or the year before). And as the even smaller number of people who track my tech book writing have noticed… I haven’t written a book in a very long time!

Don’t get me wrong, I still write a lot but the vast majority of my writing is for ye olde day job. I seem to have fallen out of the habit of writing for pleasure.

I was reminded of this fact by two related things. I decided to switch RSS readers from NetNewsWire (which I’ve been using forever) to Evergreen (which the original developer of NNW is working on). I did this for a couple of reasons:

• I get the sense that NNW isn’t really the top priority for the company who currently owns it.
• The only reason to use NNW is for syncing across devices, and that just doesn’t work well (nor does the NNW iOS app, which is a shame).
• While Evergreen is very early in its development, I know Brent is going to keep on making it better and better… and his vision of what an RSS reader should be pretty much matches my own.

Moving my feeds into Evergreen gave me the opportunity to go through and do some feed pruning. I was clicking along happily until I came to my “Philadelphia” folder.

I discovered that most of the blogs in that folder have long been abandoned and I re-read this blog post Marisa wrote awhile ago bemoaning the lack of personal blogging in general.

Therefore, I’m really going to try and write stuff here (and maybe in other places, though I really doubt anyone is interested in paying me to write anything at this point).

I think the first thing I’ll write is a post about why I abandoned my Apple Watch and embraced the Fitbit life. I’m sure everyone is dying to know!