Consistent Blogging is Hard
A couple years ago Drew DeVault seeded a new blogosphere by giving $20 to anyone willing to start a new blog who does not already have one, and an additional $20 to anyone who kept writing for another 6 months. He also started a mailing list called the free-writers-club where people could encourage each other to write more and give feedback on their work.
This was such a cool experiment. I love that he was able to get so many people to participate. There were a bunch of new blogs created because of this, and a lot of them are still online today.
Unfortunately, the mailing list has been quiet for a year, and the only person still regularly blogging from this initial batch is Daniel Sidhion.
It’s really hard to consistently blog, especially when you are first starting out. But these types of blogs are my favorites. I am not sure if $20, $200, or even $2000 is enough to encourage folks to regularly blog, but I wish more people did. The world needs more blogs like these.
Thank you for reading! Share your thoughts with me on bluesky, mastodon, or via email.
Check out some more stuff to read down below.
Most popular posts this month
- SQLite DB Migrations with PRAGMA user_version
- My Custom Miniflux CSS Theme
- 2024
- 2023
- Ladybird on Debian Stable
Recent Favorite Blog Posts
This is a collection of the last 8 posts that I bookmarked.
- Pluralistic: AI "journalists" prove that media bosses don't give a shit (11 Mar 2026) from Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
- Avi Alkalay: Uniqlo T-Shirt Bash Script Easter Egg from Fedora People
- Offline 23 hours a day from Derek Sivers blog
- Pluralistic: California can stop Larry Ellison from buying Warners (28 Feb 2026) from Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
- On Alliances from Smashing Frames
- Acting ethically in an imperfect world from Smashing Frames
- Diffusion of Responsibility from Smashing Frames
- My AI Adoption Journey from Mitchell Hashimoto
Articles from blogs I follow around the net
Experimenting with Starlette 1.0 with Claude skills
Starlette 1.0 is out! This is a really big deal. I think Starlette may be the Python framework with the most usage compared to its relatively low brand recognition because Starlette is the foundation of FastAPI, which has attracted a huge amount of buzz t…
via Simon Willison's Weblog: Entries March 22, 2026Speeding Up Django Startup Times with Lazy Imports
At Fancer we are building the security suite for startups. Startups use a lot of SaaS tools and services which means we are building a lot of integrations. Most of these go through API calls but we also try to leverage SDKs to make our lives a little bit …
via Anže's Blog March 22, 2026USR stablecoin depegs in $24 million exploit
The Resolv USD stablecoin, also known as USR, lost its intended dollar peg and dropped to around $0.14 after an exploiter was able to mint and sell tens of millions of unbacked tokens. USR is an asset-backed stablecoin that uses cryp…
via Web3 is Going Just Great March 22, 2026Generated by openring