rscottjones Last updated: May 19, 2024 Welp, everything has changed. I essentially tossed my old /now page away, moving it to the /then archive I recently started.1 That’s because my life changed quite a bit earlier in the week. My dad died. 💔 That’s usually a big enough event in someone’s life to warrant a complete rewriting. In the case of … Read more
What I love most about social media are the relationships you can create. Nearly all of my most cherished friendships were first forged online. That’s not an exaggeration. I’ve always viewed social media primarily as a tool for meeting people with similar interests—not as a place to gather followers, be an “influencer,” or to sell things. As … Read more
One of the many benefits of having your own website is the ability to use email aliases associated with your domain. (You can use these with gmail, too—but you should really have your own domain instead). Here are a few ways you can utilize your domain’s email aliases to improve your digital life. Unique aliases … Read more
Most task management apps, such as the stellar Things 3 that I rely on, allow you to set reminders based on a time deadline. But the iOS Reminders app offers something different—reminders based on location, not time. You can set reminders based on: This offers a completely different way of thinking about reminders. Instead of … Read more
There are many, many reasons why you should have you own website. Here are just a few of them: Ok, that’s enough for now. Go get yourself a website! Register a domain (not sure what name to use? start with your name). Connect a simple blogging platform. Just get started. Thank me later.
Back in the early days of blogging, launching your own website required quite a bit of knowledge and a quite long list of steps to complete. If you didn’t know what to do, it felt a bit intimidating. I know, I learned how to do it—mostly through trial and (lots of) error. Part of that … Read more
Personal websites are the best way to have a home on the internet. While every site is—and should be—a personal expression of its owner, it can also be useful to adopt some standard pages that visitors often benefit from. Each of these pages is best found at the root directory, which is why I list them as … Read more
This is a twitter thread I posted back in April 2022 outlining the story of my national parks quest. I haven’t changed much of the formatting, so this will resemble a twitter thread and not a traditional blog post. Perhaps I’ll edit it in the future, but for now, this will have to do. Here’s … Read more
I love many of the new, simple blogging platforms—Scribbles, Pika, Micro.blog, Bear Blog, omg.lol, and so forth. They’re useful for helping you get words on page without much fuss. You don’t worry about endlessly tweaking your design, because there really isn’t much of one. Like social media, it’s more standard interface than personal website. This can be refreshing for … Read more
This is my personal take on a /uses page. It also functions as my Default apps for 2024 post (though I’m making it a more permanent addition). Since online reviews are so gamed and broken these days, I wanted to post my stuff so you can ask questions of an actual user of these items. … Read more