I recently re-upped my site hosting for another year. *plug* Bluehost for the win. *end plug* That of course had me thinking about impact and legacy. These ramblings only continue to exist because I put in varying degrees of effort and money each year. Blogs (like life) are not a set-and-done thing but a constant, continuous, tending-to that must be fed to stay survive. Having dead blogs litter my RSS library, I know the tendency to entropy is always lurking. URLs and site structures sometimes change; a technology stack might be upgraded and feed functions don’t make the cut. Link rot is real and surprisingly fast.
My first post — in all its infantile ick — is still here. The feed has continued to work for ten years even through hiatus. Those are some minor accomplishments that I’m going to be proud of today. It’s not much and it doesn’t have to be. We should be celebrating the zero victories when all we do is stave off the heat death of decay. That’s more sustainable than overproducing for the simple sake of consumption. Now, time to tend some weeds both in my digital and physical garden.