I'm moving all my writing to my own site
If you found me through the Vocalinux post, thanks for reading. Short version: I'm consolidating, and from now on new posts only go out on jatinkrmalik.com. Why I've been writing since 2011, and it ended up s
If you found me through the Vocalinux post, thanks for reading. Short version: I'm consolidating, and from now on new posts only go out on jatinkrmalik.com.
Why
I've been writing since 2011, and it ended up scattered across eight platforms: a gadget news blog in college, a Blogger log of me learning JavaScript, BitSnapper, a GitHub Pages blog, then Medium, LinkedIn, DEV and X threads. Every move left the old stuff behind, and some of those blogs only survive on the Wayback Machine now.
I'd rather own one archive I can move, back up and keep alive than keep renting space on platforms that change their rules every few years.
What I built
The site is a static Astro blog on GitHub Pages, with around 220 posts going back to 2011. A few bits DEV readers might like:
- Every post says where it was first published, and the About page lists every old platform and links to where it lived.
- Static search with Pagefind, press
/from any page. - A 1200x630 share card for every post, rendered at build time with headless Chromium, so link previews look right whatever shape the cover is.
- A lot of the migration (pulling posts out of dead platforms, fixing broken images, the share cards) was done with AI agents, and I checked what went in.
Where to follow
The Vocalinux post stays here, but the copy on my site is the one I'll keep updated. The full announcement is here. Next up is a lot more homelab, starting with the Zion series.
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