Kieran
Scott Hanselman ✅👸🏽🐝🌮Own your words, my friends. Backup your words. Don’t put them into walled gardens that may grow weeds and disappear. https://www.hanselman.com/blog/your-words-are-wasted (2012)
carthik@shanselman The same seems true of offline formats - like Latex or ODF versus Word or .pages. So much of what’s been written could be lost forever (in the long term) due to how digital information is walled.
Hippo 🍉@carthik @shanselman gosh, that's a scary thought 😳
Anyway, I've already been slowly converting everything to #Markdown...
Michael Craig 🌻🇺🇦
James Turner@shanselman agreed though I'm far less concerned with my tweets and toots, more about the longer form content like blog posts.
When some blog posts are built upon weeks of R&D, you really don't want to be locking that up.
Own the canonical, syndicate far!
Mattias Karlsson (he/him)@turnerj @shanselman yip agreed, don't care to much about my social posts, but indeed my longer written words, which is why I switched back to self-hosted on own domain from Medium, some times cross-post but import to correctly reference original content.
But important to think about the legacy of your words, choose a license so there can be no mistake of your will. I've chosen CC BY 4.0 for my personal content, just as I've chosen MIT for my code.
But important to think about the legacy of your words, choose a license so there can be no mistake of your will. I've chosen CC BY 4.0 for my personal content, just as I've chosen MIT for my code.
PTEC3D@shanselman Sadly, the only thing that wouild work is a carbonite hard drive powered by a star and broadcasting through the millennia.
I love my blogs as places to put thoughts. I have several blogs, a WP instance, blogger, substack - and they get few visits from an audience more used to short bite-sized messages.
So my posts seem mostly for my benefit. But I still like publishing them.
Thibault D.@shanselman worry not, I have many copies of your git-mental-health tweet lying around 😅
Paul Sanders 😎@shanselman love this!
Simon Waight@shanselman still sage advice!
Neil Vass@shanselman
"We are asking these questions in 2012? Read those bullets again. These were solved problems in 1999."
We never learn eh...
Tom Meadon@shanselman absolutely - even if you don’t write as often as you’d like (like me 😅)
Dirk Dulfer ☕@shanselman
Great post, which I still remember reading 10y ago. Contrary to the majority of content on the internet today, I expect you can post/toot/tweet? this reference to it again in 2032
Great post, which I still remember reading 10y ago. Contrary to the majority of content on the internet today, I expect you can post/toot/tweet? this reference to it again in 2032
John Reilly ❤️🌻@shanselman thanks for this. Reading this blog post 10 years ago both encouraged me to keep going with my (then) new habit of blogging and got me thinking about domain names as well. Appreciate it ❤️🌻
PierreNick 
💾@shanselman At that point in 2012 I had definitely stopped blogging. Now I want to document what I work on more than ever. On my own platforms.