Jan-Lukas Else

Thoughts of an IT expert

Merging my blogs

Published on 2019-03-28 in 💭 Thoughts

Updated on 2020-01-07

Short link: https://b.jlel.se/s/341

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I recently realized my writings are cluttered all over multiple websites. I think that isn’t good and isn’t helping to motivate me to write more often. Instead of publishing something on my blog, I often just write a short tweet. To change this, I decided to merge my blogs, or at least some of them.

For this I bought the domain “jlelse.blog” (I think that’s a really fancy one like my main domain “jlelse.dev”) and started restructuring the Hugo setup I use for my sites. I fixed a few bugs with the theme, created some redirect and rewrite rules, and copied the contents of my development blog to my former “jlelse writes” blog.

I also decided to add a new category “thoughts” for short thoughts, that normally land in a tweet.

This blog has the following categories now:

All (that’s everything from all subcategories) (RSS)
Posts (former “jlelse Writes”) (RSS)
Thoughts (Short thoughts) (RSS)
Dev (former “Dev All The Things”) (RSS)

I hope you like reading my stuff! Feel free to send me ideas…

I will probably also rework some older articles soon and, of course, write new ones.

Update: (04. Jun 2019)

There are now two more categories on this blog:

Medium Archive (RSS): An archive of some posts I originally published on Medium.
Links (RSS): A collection of links I stumbled across.

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- Anonymous A comment by Anonymous paid off in what sense?. that you are blogging more often or that your traffic is higher?
- Colin Walker Liked: Two years jlelse.blog - jlelse's Blog... It seems … Liked: Two years jlelse.blog - jlelse's Blog... It seems to be a day for blog anniversaries. Congratulations Jan-Lukas 🎉
- AlanGMarz @jlelse Congratulations. Two years for a personal blog is… @jlelse Congratulations. Two years for a personal blog is a long time—much praise to you for the art of doing it and not for money or views.
- jlelse @AlanGMarz I blog for more than two years already (~ 5 ye… @AlanGMarz I blog for more than two years already (~ 5 years). I just merged my different blogs two years ago. ☺️ Blogging is a great way to share things without annoying anyone IRL. 😅
- peterimoore @jlelse that’s awesome, congrats! 👍🏻 👏🏻 @jlelse that’s awesome, congrats! 👍🏻 👏🏻
- AlanGMarz @jlelse Agree. 😊 @jlelse Agree. 😊