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	"title": "Serhii's Makarenko Blog",
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				"id": "http://serhiymakarenko.micro.blog/2024/12/13/an-attempt-to-start-blogging.html",
				"title": "An Attempt to Start Blogging Again",
				"content_html": "<p>Some time ago, I had a self-hosted blog that I had started it in 2009. I had a lot of spare time then and ran the blog software on the Mac mini, that resided on the shelf of my parent&rsquo;s apartment in Kyiv, Ukraine. All posts there were written in Ukrainian, and I was trying to keep the blog alive for a decade or so. Since then, many things have changed; I lost the grip and did not have enough time to maintain this home setup and share my thoughts, ideas, and details of my hobbies.</p>\n<p>Now, I’m feeling confident enough to attempt to start blogging again. When I started to explore possible ways to spin-up a blog again on some blogging services or give a try to one of many self-hosted solutions, I’ve discovered that the landscape of blogging has dramatically changed recently.</p>\n<p>It appears that everything is moving in the Fediverse direction, and I like this. Furthermore, I think that self-hosted solutions are not for me anymore, mainly because of an insufficient amount of spare time. Since my initial blog was started, many things changed: I became a father, moved to a different country, and now I’m trying to build a professional career I dreamed about all of my life. So, blogging for me and all those supporting this hobby thing should be relatively easy and should not require all of my leisure time.</p>\n<p>I’ve decided to write posts in English, so this will increase the amount of time I need to spend on blogging, since English is not my home language. My English writing skills require some improvements, so I thought that blogging might be a good practice to improve them. As of now, I need to spend additional time on grammar checks and proofreading. This is a bit hard for me yet, even though I’m able to use all this AI stuff from Apple and Google to make these things easier.</p>\n<p>In the end, I decide to choose <a href=\"https://micro.blog\">Micro.Blog</a> as a platform to spin-up my new blog. Here are the key points for me of this service:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Micro.Blog is a managed service. This allows me to save time compared to self-hosting solutions;</li>\n<li>It&rsquo;s small;</li>\n<li>It’s part of the Fediverse;</li>\n<li>Supports cross-posting everywhere I need (Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads);</li>\n<li>I’m able to write posts and publish them from the Ulysses app;</li>\n<li>Very thin and simple platform that meets all of my needs.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>So, without any future delays, let&rsquo;s start this blogging journey.</p>\n",
				
				"date_published": "2024-12-13T21:46:00-07:00",
				"url": "https://serhiis.blog/2024/12/13/an-attempt-to-start-blogging.html",
				"tags": ["blogging","hobby"]
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