Blogspire is a great suggestion tool – go sign up – but when a topic doesn’t come from within the process to coming up with a post is a lot more complicated. Even when the idea is yours, there is a lot that goes into coming up with a decent post. Let me describe the two ways [...]
Late January @andraz approached me with an idea: What if I helped Zemanta spruce up their tech blog? The blog had been languishing in neglect for a long time. An update every couple of months, completely random and with no real direction or purpose. Since they’re a company that’s all about blogging I guess it [...]
Knowing how many readers a blog gets is pretty important for any blog writer. We like to pretend it doesn’t even matter, put on a face of “Oh well, I’m just writing this for myself, you know, to get the word out, I don’t really care if anyone reads it” What a bunch of hipsters! [...]
Image via Wikipedia So today I finally got sick and tired of using the blogging platform I’d developed ontop of my framework, because while it’s alright for a lot of things like extreme flexibility and so on it does have its quirks … like me not being able to do too many fancy things since [...]
Today I woke up into a somewhat warm room, but my bed was warmer. So I hit snooze, I can afford five more minutes. Then I hit snooze again. And again. And again. Ok so it’s now been 30 minutes of snoozing in a warm bed. Fuck it, let’s turn off the alarm, I can [...]
This is a small howto aimed at small blogs, really small blogs when looked at globally, who would like to feel the love. So I decided to share what I learned from having recently driven a 840% traffic spike to my blog with a single entry and increased comment count from zero to 10. I [...]
Today I resolved a bug lurking deep within the workings of my Chlorine Boards framework and I have twitter to thank. When I made a blogpost about how drug use is not abuse a person following me on twitter immediatelly picked up on the post, gave it a read, retweeted and wanted to leave a [...]
When I was redesigning my blog I had the marvelous idea of adding a reBlog widget to the sidebar on the left. The main reason behind this idea was that since my readers hopefully enjoy what i have to say they might also enjoy giving a glance or two to the things I read myself, [...]
Yesterday was the busiest Sunday I’ve had in a long while since usually I devote my Sundays to leisurely activities with my girlfriend. This weekend however the girlfriend went on a trip to Tirol with family and I seized the day (and night actually) to remake my blog – something I’ve been planning to do [...]
