I’ve decided to move my blog over to blot. I’ve been trying to simplify things and with a relatively slight learning curve, I can get myself settled in with blot. WordPress has served me well for a long time but I’ve come to feel that it’s too much a platform with too many options and too many plugins. I like markdown and although it can be dowloaded and installed on your computer, there are so many markdown-compatible apps and platforms that I’m not sure why one would do that. blot is one such platform.
It does away with any kind of CMS and uses a folder directory in Dropbox or Google Drive to store .txt files (or .docx files, maybe others?), each file of which is a post. Nothing could be simpler, nothing could be more future-proof. There aren’t any plug-ins to lean on and the inclination to muck about with scripts I don’t understand or the like. I just make the file, link to an image if I want to include one, and up it goes. Or just drop an image in the Posts folder and it becomes a post on its own.
No more worrying about which writing app to use on which device or which writing app to use at all. I can kill a couple of subscriptions I’ve been clinging to because their products integrate so easil with WordPress. So we’ll see, I guess, if I stick with it as plannned but the older I get and the more I get into steering clear of social platforms, the better something like blot starts to look.
I’m not moving the whole blog over quite yet. It’s a long process given my past reliance on some WordPres plugins but I’ll try to get the more poular stuff taken care of before too long. If you have any questions in the meantime, you can drop me a line at mail@zachbarocas.com.