Love that new blog smell!
It’s been a while since I had one of these things. The last one died so unceremoniously I don’t even remember letting it go. I probably let the domain expire at some point. Maybe the site is still out there on some old Media Temple server, endlessly serving 404s to /wp-admin bot requests from the preview URL.
According to the Internet Archive, my last post was on August 3, 2010: Custom Fields and the Death of the Field Group. I was advocating for a content modeling change in ExpressionEngine, complete with a mockup of a field layout designer not too different from what we have in Craft.
I think I stopped blogging after that because that was right around the time I met Lisa, started a family, and started building a CMS. Life got pretty intense, pretty quickly.
Life isn’t any simpler now, but I’ve been itching to write again. As a creative outlet, and maybe as a way to process some existential dread. We’ll see where it goes.
Jack Whiting on Bluesky ∙ Feb 14, 2025
Let’s go. Everyone should have a blog and place to put your structured thoughts.