Jonathan Crowe

I’ve been writing some version of a personal blog since July 2001, but blogging has gotten awfully infrequent lately. Time for some changes.

I’ve decided to wrap up the personal blog and reduce my website to a set of static pages with the basics (links to publications, a curated list of essays worth keeping from the blogging days, and so on; existing links will redirect to new URLs). For the past two months I’ve been building that smaller website offline, using Eleventy to produce static, lightweight HTML files that run on any web server. The work is going well and I hope to have it done by the end of the year.

The newsletter will continue. In fact, I plan to ramp it to serve as a blog replacement. More frequent, more substantial. To that end I need more firepower than is available via my web host’s antiquated announcement list service, so it’s moving to Buttondown, which seems to be decent about user data and privacy. You can subscribe to the new newsletter here. I’m working—slowly—on the first issue now.

Nothing needs doing at your end. Existing newsletter subscribers will be transferred over, and the site’s RSS feed will eventually redirect to the newsletter after it’s up and running. Watch this space.

Update, 12 Dec: The first issue of the relaunched newsletter is now live, and the RSS feed now redirects to the newsletter. This is the final post of this blog; subscribe to the newsletter or to its RSS feed for further updates.

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Because I have an abiding interest in vintage Swedish typewriters, and information on said typewriters is somewhat thin on the ground online—especially in English—I’ve put together a page of links to various manuals, guides, reviews and videos about Facit and Halda typewriters. To be added to as I go.

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Finally got this blog reconnected to Dreamwidth: posts made here will also be mirrored there. The trick to making the JournalPress plugin work again was to use an API key (generated here) instead of trying to log in with my username and password. I expect that this was always the solution; it just took me until yesterday to stumble across it.

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