Hello World
For a few years now I have been thinking about setting up some kind of weblog system on my web site that would make it easier to share thoughts. The problem is that readily available solutions like WordPress are even more annoying in the long run because they are full of security-relevant bugs and thus require constant attention and maintenance. Hosted services, on the other hand, lead to unnecessary dependency—if the provider decides to end the service, one needs to find a new solution and either discard the old content (which is absolutely out of the question for me) or tediously migrate it to the new place. Furthermore, most solutions—self-hosted or not—have lots of functionality that I don’t need, while lacking reasonable multi-language support (which I would find really useful).
Then I started using Flickr in 2005, and Twitter in 2008, and a bunch of other “Web 2.0” services. And finally I realized that my desired solution just isn’t going to happen anytime soon, and that each of these platforms, while being really far from my ideals, actually do a pretty good job at what they’re intended for. And they are fun to use—especially Twitter (which is, from a technical point of view, the worst thing I’ve seen since MySpace).
So now I am giving this Tumblr thing a try. For the things that are too long to fit in Twitter’s 140-character limit. Und manchmal werde ich wahrscheinlich auch etwas auf deutsch schreiben. Mal sehen, was daraus wird.
