What Would Joel Goodwin Do? Another Year, Another Blog :P

Every year or three I find myself pining for a better blog backend — they all seem plagued by one problem or another. But, I had the same problem a couple years ago, when I wasn’t entirely settled on Unity and I wasn’t happy with any of the other options. I did finally land on the Godot Engine, and I’ve been extremely happy with it. I’ve uploaded ten things (see the collection of everything I’ve released so far in Godot here on itch.io) and been through many more, with no sign of wanting to switch it up.

Maybe I found the right tool, or maybe something inside me changed.

So my friend Tav offered to help me maintain a better blogging habit. I’ve been using this scrappy little backend, Anchor CMS, but I thought: if she’s going to be helping me keep up a schedule and we’re going to try to liven up the comments section, I’d better really think about how hard I want to commit to Anchor. My absolute favourite blog to keep up with is Electron Dance. Joel somehow maintains an excellent comment* section, the website looks nice, and he produces good & reliable output.

*I've closed the comments on this blog. Old comments have been preserved, but no new ones can be made. I either had a little exchange w/ Joel himself or just saw something he said somewhere, about maintaining a nice comment section. I love it; but I realized staying on top of it, responding to comments, just isn't something I can do. I appreciate good discourse but, alas, I don't have the energy to be responsible for cultivating it. --droqen, 2021 July 30

I swear I’ve looked at his website before and not found this, but there it was at the bottom of his blog, plain as day. In tiny font that blends into the background but still: I know how to navigate HTML. Could I really have missed that if I was looking for it?

Anyway, welcome to my new blog for 2021, a new year, a fresh start. Funny how I’ve circled back to using WordPress again. If you’re interested in my blog posts from the past, here’s a list of all my previous blogs (please let me know what I’ve missed):

• Lose Your Way

• loseyourway.net (archives have been lost)

• Droqen Was Here

• Psoqhe` (from 2009. i was 18. that is an eternity ago. please don’t read this.)