After two and a half decades online, I finally have my own website: benchristel.com.
I wanted to have one hat rack where I could hang all my internet hats. benchristel.com is the hat rack.
(This idea is analogous to the entrypoint document pattern for software projects, which I need to write a book chapter about someday soon.)
You won’t find much on the site itself, yet, except a big pile of links I’ve bookmarked. But I wanted to let you know about it because it relates to my near-term plans for this newsletter.
In short: I want to be less dependent on Substack. I like publishing on Substack, and I have no plans to stop doing so, but I don’t want it to be the only place where people can find my writing. I’d like to see what I can do with indieweb technologies, and generally get involved with the indieweb scene a bit more, because I think it’s important for information-sharing to be decoupled from surveillance capitalism. So I want to shift my mindset towards treating my book and website as primary, and this newsletter as secondary.
What that means, concretely, is:
I’ll continue to write chapters of my book, Process to Processes, and cross-post them here.
I’ll also write standalone essays, which I’ll post on benchristel.com and maybe also cross-post here if they seem germane.1
Treating benchristel.com as the primary repository of my work will make it easier for me to organize my writing, keep it up to date, and format it exactly how I want (I’m still working on this last part).
Long-time subscribers have seen how good I am at following a plan (i.e. not good). With that in mind… that’s my plan.
If you like the current format of this newsletter, don’t worry. From your perspective, nothing will change.
However, if you’d like to subscribe directly to benchristel.com, in order to get up-to-the-megasecond news about what I’m working on, you can! Just drop the URL, https://benchristel.com, into your favorite RSS reader. And if you have no idea what I’m talking about, you can also subscribe with your email, here.
(If you do happen to have a favorite RSS reader, I’d love to know what it is. Let me know in the comments.)