I decided to move my blog away from Bear Blog to my own site built on 11ty and hosted on Cloudflare Pages. I still very much appreciate and admire Bear Blog. It helped me get back into blogging for the nth time by offering a very low barrier to entry, got me some readers through its discovery pages, and gave me a little community of bloggers to participate in. Thank you, Herman! I decided to move for a few reasons. Terminal-driven workflow I want to be able to update my blog remotely over SSH. I'm often writing on my work laptop because it's often the computer I have with me. Meanwhile, I decided not to keep any of my personal data on my work laptop, so I now edit my personal stuff — my Obsidian vault, my blog, etc. — by SSHing into my home computer. Now, I could just write remotely and then copy/paste into the Bear Blog web editor, and I have done that many times. However, pasting into a web browser on my company laptop now triggers a popup asking me to attest that I'm not doing…
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