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Reflecting on this Blog

Wed, 20 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

I wanted to take a second to reflect on the tone and content of this blog, which overall I’m not super satisfied with. This blog has primarily served as a place where I put mostly software engineering and running content over the years. However, rarely do I compose a post for this blog that I feel is “good enough” to be publishing here.

This goes beyond perfectionism — I think seeing amazing content every day on aggregation websites like Reddit and “the orange website” creates this implicit feeling that every post I produce needs to be well-written, technically impressive, and cast me in a good light. For better or worse, having my name as the title of this blog makes me feel like every post has a material effect on my (vomits in mouth a little bit) personal brand.

New Blog, Who Dis?

Fri, 30 Mar 2018 13:10:14 -0700

I updated the design of my blog and moved it from jeff.is to www.jeffcarp.com. The site jeff.is is still available, but I’ll be moving over content shortly and setting up a redirect.

Hello World, Again

Sat, 08 Feb 2014 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve tried numerous times to start a consistently updated blog. The main deterring factor is that any time I go back and read my writing from a week/month/year ago, I cringe.

Maybe the reason I cringe is because I was blogging for the wrong reasons.

This isn’t the part where I start pontificating what blogging should be about, but I think what motivated me before was some vague need to toot my own horn, or (god forbid) build by “personal brand.”