MacKuba

Just a quick update, if you’re following this blog via RSS: I’ve started a separate “journal” blog on micro.blog: journal.mackuba.eu.

Micro.blog is an interesting service: it’s a one-man indie business that’s sort of a hybrid between a blogging platform and a microblogging social network. You can write anything between full-size blog posts and tweet-sized single messages, and you can cross-post them to Bluesky, Mastodon etc. You can also follow people from the community that’s formed there and reply to them, all in the form of those mini-blogposts (there are no likes or retweets though). The idea, as I understand, is to use a network of blogs to build a social network that uses the web itself as the foundation.

I’m not really planning to use it in this social network mode, since I’m pretty happy now posting on Bluesky and to limited degree on Mastodon (I’ve completely stopped posting on Twitter at this point, since last autumn, when Elon started openly supporting Trump). I’m also not completely sold on this “web as a social network” idea. And I don’t intend it to replace this blog here either – I will still be (very) occasionally posting those super long articles here like the one about NSButtons or the guide to Bluesky.

But I’ve felt the need for a while to have a place to post something in between those – not full blog, and not a micro blog, but a “mediumblog” so to say (not to be confused with a Medium blog) – like this post, for example. Something where I can sometimes post my thoughts more easily, when I want to write something that doesn’t really fit in a few skeets/toots, with less effort required to start and finish it. This seems like it could work for that.

It’s also nice that it’s supposed to sync replies from Bluesky/Mastodon under the posted link back to the blog page as comments below (I’ll try to implement the same thing here). I also have it configured with my own domain, so I can possibly migrate it to something self-hosted like Jekyll or Hugo at some point, keeping all the links and content.

For now, I’ve posted an update about what I’ve been working on recently: tuning a Postgres database to which I’m trying to migrate my Bluesky feeds service. I don’t know how often I will end up posting there, I don’t want to pressure myself, just to have a place to post when I have a need. So if you’re curious, follow me there via RSS (or on Bluesky or Mastodon).