Tag: blog

Moved yet again

So the blog moved again. It’s still on WordPress and still run with Docker, but is now being hosted at home on my new compute node. The docker compose file is almost the same but have learned loads about the sidebar pattern. Previously I ran WordPress and MariaDB using docker compose but the backup was external to that stack. With the sidecar pattern I have a backup sidecar container in the stack that encapsulates the backup logic and that may then be scripted from the outside with cron. Really powerful.

The blog is also now behind two layers of reverse proxies (one that fronts the entire home lab and one that fronts only Docker based services) which gave its own set of complexity and a very late night. But as with all things presenting challenges, you learn so much from solving the challenge and making it work.

I’ll try and make it stay here for a while at least…

Technorati State of the Blogosphere 2010

Just completed the Technorati State of the Blogosphere 2010 survey per request via e-mail (and you’re welcome to do the same). I normally have quite mixed opinions about these kinds of surveys but I decided to give it a go and I was quite surprised over my answers. The survey is rather lengthy and goes into a lot of topics which aren’t really relevant for me such as adds, monetizing the blog, measuring traffic and hot topics from 2010 such as the Mexican Oil Spill. The survey also touches on other topics which was more interesting to me such as the amount of blogging, why I blog and stuff like that.

The survey has a whole section on Twitter, whether one uses it and what the purpose is. It also goes right to the heart of microblogging vs. blogging namely that it makes me blog less. Looking at my blogging stats it’s very obvious that microblogging has made me blog less. But when I do blog it’s generally longer than before microblogging. It was quite an eye opener and something that will probably take a little while to digest.

One thing is certain – blogging has become a very prominent way of getting news no matter who niche it may be. Whether it’s about super local politics, whether it’s about what to do for Lotusphere or what the new cloud initiative from IBM is all about. Blogging has changed the way information is delivered and consumed and it’s a better World because of it.