A place of your own on the internet

There is a meaningful difference between posting somewhere and publishing somewhere.

Posting is immediate. You put a thought into a stream, where it competes with everything written five minutes before and five minutes after. Publishing asks a slower question: is this worth giving an address?

An address changes the work. A page at a stable URL can be corrected, linked, rediscovered, and passed between people who were not present for its first appearance. It becomes a small piece of infrastructure.

The domain is the durable part

Software changes. Hosting companies disappear. A framework that feels inevitable today will eventually look like a very specific product of its decade. The domain and the files matter more than any of them.

That is why this site keeps posts as ordinary Markdown. If the current machinery becomes inconvenient, the writing can move without being rewritten. The public URLs can remain where they are.

Own the address, keep the source, and treat redirects as promises.

This is not an argument against publishing elsewhere. Syndication is useful. It is an argument for having an original: a place from which every copy descends and to which every copy can point.

Fewer measurements, better attention

When the page is yours, you can decide what not to measure. You do not need a dossier on each reader to learn whether the writing helped people. Aggregate counts, replies, and links are usually enough.

The resulting page can be almost embarrassingly plain. That is fine. The words are doing the work.