Re: Do people IRL know you have a blog? – Lars-Christian.com

A short while before I came across bacardi55’s call to conversation, I asked my wife if she wanted to see something cool. She said yeah. I showed her the Reading section, and explained that I was constructing the functionality to track my reading on my own website. Her response was a blank stare. Nonplussed, she asked me why anyone would care about which books I was reading. I told her that it didn’t matter, because I do. And to do it on my own website — as opposed to Goodreads or some other such walled garden of a corporate behemoth — is a small act of defiance. It is to stand up to the tech overlords and cry “No!” It is one small step in the direction of preserving the independent web. By the time I finished my speech, she had moved on with her life. I think she was in the next room, folding clothes. That’s the usual response whenever I try to talk about my website — this website — in real life (IRL). In the nearly twenty years that’s passed since I first published this website, the

A short while before I came across bacardi55’s call to conversation, I asked my wife if she wanted to see something cool. She said yeah. I showed her the Reading section, and explained that I was constructing the functionality to track my reading on my own website. Her response was a blank stare. Nonplussed, she asked me why anyone would care about which books I was reading. I told her that it didn’t matter, because I do. And to do it on my own website — as opposed to Goodreads or some other such walled garden of a corporate behemoth — is a small act of defiance. It is to stand up to the tech