ghost post 1 (prev were originally in wordpress or substack)
Perhaps this time.
I wonder if DNS migration got any easier in the 20 years since I last did one? Well, I've put forwarding on. and nobody is typing in domain names any more anyway. the kids these days are all about the clicking.
David Pierce
So we've been knowing that posting your creative goods in the text box that some corporation can display their own ad network above and beside is not a good plan. That page was October 2023. It's March 2025. And my only defence for not migrating to a decent hosting service that I enjoy is that
- I was
- not actually
- creating creative goods.
Like, I've been journalling like it's a pathology. I've been bookmarking and annotating in the style of someone who's totally just about to make a connected essay about it all and go huge. I even typed some of it? (Obsidian my limerent beloved. Can't wait to see if that sticks.)
I really like the idea of the digital garden, the website that actually uses hypertext and the smartness of the web and the timelessness of links, rather than the newest-first blog or the (makes the sign to avert evil) algorithm that you have to dance in a chalk circle to appease. I like the small web. I like the idea of this. I don't like thinking about my stuff as something I have to keep updated (cf. the years I didn't post) or something where I have to leverage every reader for growth. Ewww, growth. Ewww, calls to action. Ewww, monetising.
There is a tips link up there, though. It literally can't hurt.
I don't have the kind of life that moves forwards, you know? Not in any Key Performance Indicators way. I'm on an Open University degree because the state will fund an Environmental Science degree even if you already have one, and why not be the means of transferring £18k from the state to the OU, right? I have a literal garden that runs in cycles not in progress. The greenhouse gets cleaned and gets dirty again. The grass gets cut and grows again. The flax seed got sowed and the pigeons ate 90% of it. That's not, like, task failed. That's birds fed.
There's dried flax hanging on the wall still, though.
I always forget Wordpress is owned by the same people as Tumblr. It's hard to hold in the mind, isn't it?
The noob tier of ghost is 9 USD per year or 11 USD per month. You would think 108 USD up front would be the obvious choice, but it's March 2025. Shall I set it to monthly and bet on the arse falling out of the dollar?
I mean. Look at them.
Stop looking at them. Look at this.
Sutton & Sons Ltd.
See? Let's get timeless, melon farmers.