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    <description>rants from a greybeard</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:14:28 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Another fresh start</title>
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      <description>&lt;![CDATA[I decided to start blogging again while I was having lunch on the last day of a conference  I attended. I was thrilled by almost everything I saw and heard there, so I felt the urge to start writing about it.&#xA;&#xA;I&#39;ve lost faith in social networks long time ago and the only social network I&#39;m still in doesn&#39;t deserve any structured thought because of its enshittification.&#xA;&#xA;I spent several days thinking about where and how to start blogging again; I excluded Medium because of their paywall, I haven&#39;t considered not even for a second Substack and/or any other walled garden that forces users to subscribe, pay, or download an app to read a bunch of characters that could be easily read on a toaster.&#xA;&#xA;And above all: none of those solutions are free software which is a huge nope for me.&#xA;&#xA;I spent a lot of time fighting against Wordpress so I gave up years ago, Ghost seems oriented to professional writers and GitHub pages, well, thanks but no thanks.&#xA;&#xA;I&#39;ve heard about WriteFreely on the fediverse, when I still had a presence there, but since I didn&#39;t want to selfhost or register an account on an instance that might disappear the next day, i refused to consider it.&#xA;&#xA;And here comes write.as (which, my fault, i never considered despite they are the WriteFreely developers!) that will host my bad written thoughts if I will be consistent.&#xA;&#xA;Kudos to the team! &#xA;&#xA; Pycon IT, I&#39;ll talk about it.&#xA; IYKYK, and in that case, congratulations! You&#39;re old!]]&gt;</description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I decided to start blogging again while I was having lunch on the last day of a conference [^1] I attended. I was thrilled by almost everything I saw and heard there, so I felt the urge to start writing about it.</p>

<p>I&#39;ve lost faith in social networks long time ago and the only social network I&#39;m still in doesn&#39;t deserve any structured thought because of its <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification">enshittification</a>.</p>

<p>I spent several days thinking about where and how to start blogging again; I excluded Medium because of their paywall, I haven&#39;t considered not even for a second <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substack#Criticism">Substack</a> and/or any other walled garden that forces users to subscribe, pay, or download an app to read a bunch of characters that could be easily read on a <a href="https://www.instructables.com/IronForge-the-NetBSD-Toaster/">toaster</a>[^2].</p>

<p>And above all: none of those solutions are free software which is a huge <em>nope</em> for me.</p>

<p>I spent a lot of time fighting against Wordpress so I gave up years ago, Ghost seems oriented to <em>professional</em> writers and GitHub pages, well, thanks but no thanks.</p>

<p>I&#39;ve heard about <a href="https://writefreely.org/">WriteFreely</a> on the fediverse, when I still had a presence there, but since I didn&#39;t want to selfhost or register an account on an instance that might disappear the next day, i refused to consider it.</p>

<p>And here comes <a href="https://write.as">write.as</a> (which, my fault, i never considered despite they are the WriteFreely developers!) that will host my bad written thoughts if I will be consistent.</p>

<p>Kudos to the team!</p>

<p>[^1] Pycon IT, I&#39;ll talk about it.
[^2] IYKYK, and in that case, congratulations! You&#39;re old!</p>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2025 21:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
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