Blogging on rkempe’s blog

Some Blogs I Like (2026 Edition)

Sun, 19 Jul 2026 22:58:05 -0400

Exactly a year ago, on the occasion of my blog’s first anniversary, I posted an article with some advice for starting a blog. As part of that article, I posted a list of blogs I enjoyed and had been reading. Since today is the second year anniversary of this blog, I thought I’d continue the tradition and make it an annual exercise.

Damn, It’s Been Two Years Already?

Sun, 19 Jul 2026 21:40:01 -0400

I did not write a lot on this blog this year – I have been incredibly busy. However, I am very happy to report that the blog has not died! I still managed to post some stuff here and there despite all of the craziness, and I’ve very happy with the quality of all of the blog posts I did manage to publish. I’m not as proud of all of the draft blog posts I started that I’ve yet to finish, but oh, well. You win some, you lose some. I still managed to write some spur-of-the moment angry rants but post them shortly thereafter, which I think is really what the spirit of this space existing is all about.

Linkdump: Interesting Things I Looked At (Very) Recently (2025-08-12)

Tue, 12 Aug 2025 23:07:33 -0400

Most of these are from today, but some are from yesterday, and a few are from last week. The descriptions will be short, since I am short on time.

How Do I Start a Blog? and Related Questions

Sat, 19 Jul 2025 11:16:27 -0400

This article exists because at least three people have asked me this question already and I want some place to which I can point them. Maybe I’ll eventually write a less tongue-in-cheek post about how and why I blog, but for now, you get this.

Damn, It’s Been a Year Already?

Sat, 19 Jul 2025 10:50:01 -0400

I started writing this blog exactly a year ago. The research project I was working on at the time was driving me insane, I’d started writing an article about corporate dress codes out of sheer frustration, and I felt like it was a good time to stop merely thinking about starting a blog and actually sit down and do it.

Trying This Blog Thing Again

Fri, 19 Jul 2024 00:59:04 -0400

I’ve been “blogging” on and off for more than a decade now. I struggle to decide what to put out there: I have so many thoughts, and I rarely have a time or place to share them. Every place sort of has its own issues: I love text-based social media, but the best we have is forums like reddit, which are not a great place to post “opinions” or thoughts, because they’re intended to be discussion forums, or Twitter-style (are we seriously calling it “X” now?) platforms that incentivize very short posts, which in turn incentivizes writing the pithiest version of your statement possible with no nuance whatsoever, which incentivizes reactionary statements and makes productive conversations very difficult.