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I just started doing one article per week challenge in late may. I have been keeping up with it, and am proud of some of my work. https://medium.com/@k0ryk

topics are pretty random, but software engineering adjacent: rtl sdr, home automation, air quality monitoring, nature.

Here is my most recent, a response to a post on here from last week about the hidden cost of air quality monitors: https://medium.com/@k0ryk/air-quality-monitoring-hidden-cost...

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Why medium? I hate the experience of reading medium so much that I won't even look at your blog.

A frontend for it, similar to Apple's Reader View: https://scribe.rip

Setting up a redirect for it greatly enchanced the internet browsing experience for me.

source: https://sr.ht/~edwardloveall/Scribe

Sure, I can probably work around people who want to make their blog painful to read. I'd just rather read blogs written by people who want to make them easy to read...

I didn't consider many options to be honest. Medium was just an easy way to start writing. I am planning on moving to a platform where I have more control (was thinking self-hosted static html) eventually. Do you have a favorite alternative?

> Medium was just an easy way to start writing.

I understand and empathise. For sure it is much better to just start writing than to spend months obsessing over which technologies one is going to use.

> I am planning on moving to a platform where I have more control (was thinking self-hosted static html) eventually. Do you have a favorite alternative?

Not-Medium is my favourite alternative! The bar is low: any static site generator would do fine. I wouldn't even mind you hosting on GitHub pages or whatever...

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