I’ve been tinkering with micro.blog again, which feels like the right move. After bouncing between platforms over the years, there’s something refreshing about landing somewhere that just gets out of the way and lets you write.

The technical migration was straightforward enough. Moving from Ghost to micro.blog with the Bayou theme, sorting out the feeds from Letterboxd and Bluesky, tweaking the dark mode styling. All the usual fiddling. But that’s the easy part.

The harder bit is actually using it. Not just setting up the infrastructure and then wandering off, satisfied with the mechanics of it all. Actually writing. Regularly. That’s what I’m committing to now.

Part of the problem has been treating my site like it needs to be something more than it is. Every post doesn’t need to be an essay. Every thought doesn’t need to be fully formed. Micro.blog understands this in a way other platforms don’t. Short posts, long posts, links, photos. Whatever works. The architecture encourages you to just put things out there.

I’ve always been better at writing when there’s structure to it. POST gives me that. Deadlines, assignments, a clear purpose. But my own site has languished because I’ve been waiting for the perfect moment or the perfect idea. That’s nonsense, obviously.

So this is the reset. Writing more, thinking less about whether each post deserves to exist. Building the habit back up. Using micro.blog the way it’s meant to be used, as a home base that connects to everything else but stands on its own.

The site looks good, but I still need to give it some spit and polish. That’ll happen over the next few days, and weeks, and months.