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The next iteration of my blogs

Life

I’ve had a few different blogs over the years. Every so often, I change things. One of the nice things about having your own site is that you can do whatever you want! So, I’m folding my old blogs’ content into my main website. I’m sick of adding new subdomains, and it all feels better in one place these days. The old URLs will redirect to posts on steveklabnik.com, but I wanted to record what they looked like at the time.

My oldest blog that’s survived is Literate Programming. It looked like this:

The Literate Programming home page: a serif two-column layout with a Welcome heading and a sidebar linking All Posts and Feed Literate Programming’s Archive page, listing posts including “Announcing emoji 1.0” and “Removing Turbolinks from Rails 4” A Literate Programming post, “Redcarpet Is awesome!”, with a sidebar table of contents and a syntax-highlighted Ruby snippet

This was my own static site generator! I loved making that table of contents stuff over on the left.

Then, there’s words. This used Svbtle, which is a great platform. I liked the Meeple, and the red, and the Kudos button that made random internet people so mad for some reason. Anyway, it looked like this:

The words home page on Svbtle: the red Meeple logo, an Emma Goldman epigraph, and the post “How often does Rust change?” A words post, “‘C is not how the computer works’ can lead to inefficient code”, in Svbtle’s bold sans layout The foot of a words post, showing Svbtle’s Kudos button at 822 and a “Now read this” recommendation

The kudos count does nothing, other than record that you did it. The style was really nice, it was easy to write Markdown. Then Medium got popular. Oh well.

Now, I’m writing this in Notion. I really, really like writing in Notion. Someone put together some code to use Notion like a headless CMS. Exactly what I wanted. I’ve modified it a bunch, I’m using I’m using concrete.css as the base of my look, for example. They’re using Next.js and Vercel. I’ve been a fan of those folks (and pretty much everyone in the JAMStack space, to be honest) for a while, so I’m giving that a go.

I think it’s going pretty good so far.