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.