Blogging in Context
I've decided to take a slightly unconventional approach to blogging in this new site. I decided to have just one long markdown file for each year, and I will just add new posts on the top of that file.
There are a few benefits to this approach that I really like:
- It's easy to blog in context because I see all the older posts in the same file
- The markdown file makes sense by itself without any blogging platform
Obviously, there are some downsides as well:
- Difficult to link directly to a single post (using hash based linking is ok)
- Sharing a single post in social media can be tricky and platforms will pick up wrong content for preview
- Cannot create alternative representations of the content like RSS feeds
Especially the lack of RSS feeds bugs me, but I still think that, for me, the pros outweigh the cons. It feels so nice and simple to just write in a text editor and see all my older posts in the same file. Most markdown editors support previewing and the preview looks like a blog should.
Here's the gemtext content file for this blog.