Lower the bar

A post does not need to be an essay. A useful link, a fixed bug, a paragraph of thinking — all of it counts. The blog is a notebook, not a magazine.

Publish before it’s perfect

Drafts that wait for polish never ship. I’d rather publish something rough and revise it in place than hoard it in a folder forever.

Write for one reader

Usually that reader is me, six months from now, having forgotten everything. If a post would help that person, it’s worth writing.

Keep the machinery boring

hugo new content posts/some-idea.md
# write
git commit -am "post: some idea" && git push

Three steps from idea to live. The moment publishing gets complicated, the writing stops.

That’s the whole system. Check back and see whether I stuck to it.