• Use a fountain pen or good gel pen instead of a pencil or cheap ballpoint.
  A smoother pen requires less pressure, which reduces hand fatigue and lets you focus more on writing rather than forcing the tool across the page.

• Write on paper instead of a tablet.
  Paper provides natural friction and feedback that helps control the pen. A slippery glass surface requires more effort to manage the writing motion.

• Find a pen–paper combination that feels good.
  A comfortable setup reduces distractions and makes handwriting feel effortless, helping you write longer and more consistently.

• Don’t try to conserve paper.
  Give your writing enough space. Crowding words or worrying about wasting pages can interrupt your flow and make writing physically less comfortable.

• Use cursive.
  Connected letters reduce the repeated lifting and repositioning of the pen, making writing faster and less tiring.

• Neglect perfect handwriting.
  The purpose is to capture thoughts, not produce calligraphy. Prioritizing flow over appearance keeps your thinking moving.

• Ignore occasional ink blots or smudges.
  Minor imperfections are not worth breaking concentration. The creative and cognitive benefits matter more than a perfectly clean page.

• Write anything, not just creative work.
  Journals, notes, lists, ideas, and everyday writing all provide opportunities to engage your brain through handwriting.

• Don’t assume being left-handed is a problem.
  With suitable pens, paper, and techniques, left-handed writers can enjoy handwriting without major difficulties.

• Start with ink cartridges.
  Cartridge-based fountain pens are simple and convenient, removing setup hassles so you can focus on the habit of writing.

• Buy inexpensive equipment first.
  The benefits come mainly from the act of handwriting, not from owning expensive stationery. A basic but comfortable pen is enough to start.

The Midnight is a virtual pub that lets you write posts and create pages.

Thoughts about writing and blogging. About the reader's time, writing audience, website performance, analytics, visitor respect, exclusion of third-party resources

We could consider the website "hospitality".

The best use for read-it-later tools for someone who relies primarily on feed subscriptions for reading is to perform the function that algorithms purport to perform for the majority. If you subscribe to interesting long-form articles, many of the articles that you read will have links. These links will either be to other pages on the article’s website or to articles from around the web discussed or cited to in the article.

In a post titled The Good Old Hyperlink, Kyle Labriola wrote “I like hyperlinks because it lets my personal writing feel like an evolving conversation.” Taking the point one step further, Matthias Ott wrote that the link is “the Web’s most fundamental building block, the thing that connects one human’s work to another’s.”

I also have something with hyperlinks. They are awesome to use, they feel great.

The bar is lower than common thought: uninteresting topics is a relative subject. The author's rule is anything that they’ve said more than once in a conversation.
There is also another effect in play: readers don't usually give this feedback, so it's hard to know.

So: lower your bar for what’s worth writing about! My personal standard is anything that I’ve said more than once in a conversation.

How?

1. Write consistently: every week and briefly, every day.
2. Notice and pay attention to feedback

Come with a good title: one that makes a promise about what the reader will get from reading the post that is (1) exciting, and (2) accurate.

Find the right framing. Provide examples. Use microhumor if you want to go for this tone. Write like you talk.

Some tips to make the website a bit better

A local-first alternative to Notion

The same content can create clarity for one person and confusion, stress, or exclusion for another, without changing a single word.

Accessibility is a must. Here are some examples

1. When color disappears completely

• Buttons that look clickable even without color
• Links that are underlined or styled consistently
• Hierarchy created through spacing, borders, size, and structure

2. When nice colors choices stop working

• Contrast that survives more than one type of vision
• Less reliance on subtle color differences
• Clear affordances that don’t depend on perfect perception

3. The most color blindness is ignored

• Meaning that survives without red or green
• Icons, labels, or position reinforcing importance
• Safer decisions and faster understanding

4. When text becomes slightly blurry

• Text that stays readable when slightly blurred
• Comfortable line height and spacing
• Zoom that doesn’t punish the layout

5. When you can only see a small part of the screen

• Clear headings that anchor the page#
• Logical reading order
• Visible focus states that guide navigation

7. When letters won't stay still (dyslexia)

• predictable layouts
• plain, calm language
• no uneccessary visual tricks

8. When language stops making sense

• plain language
• clear labels
• information that unfolds gradually, not all at once

Sharing the joy of writing

while I’m thinking on this, this is generally the framework I use to come up with blog topics:

• What have I worked on lately/learned/tried that might be beneficial for people to learn about?
• What opinions do I have currently that I haven’t expressed thoroughly?
• What’s something cool I’m caring about recently?
• What’s my strategy around a certain topic? (that’s this post!)

An alternative to Obsidian.

https://github.com/Smaug6739/Alexandrie

In summary:

• Use “your” when communicating to the user
• Use “my” when the user is communicating to us

Often you don't need any prefix and can just use "Account", "Orders", "Cases"

Writing acts as transcribing as much words as possible that is like a creation mode. The goal is fast.

Editing goes the other way: focus on quality.

Structure the ideas (Islands and Bridges strategy similar to ones required at school.
Make clarity out of it.
Then provide a style. To do so, I diversify my vernacular, add colorful details, and give my writing rhythm by changing the length of sentences and the words inside of them.

(via https://nicolas-delsaux.hd.free.fr/Shaarli/shaare/U-jkRA)

A web blog posting month

Evergreen notes are written and organized to evolve, contribute, and accumulate over time, across projects.

The author has evergreen notes that they can use as sentence. They can be very short or becoming long. "Evergreen notes turn ideas into objects. By turning ideas into objects you can manipulate them, combine them, stack them. You don’t need to hold them all in your head at the same time."

A community word processor with light social features.

It is used for Poetry, logging, journaling, list making, being online in a more intentional way