Weeknote for Week 25 in 2025

I could mention when I posted the previous Weeknote, but to spoil the surprise: this - should I even manage to finish this post - is the first “weeknote" this year. After all, it’s already at the end of June.

And when you read this on the website, you might notice that I moved house again and am now running this site on Ghost, hosted by Magic Pages, and for the first time in a very long time I am actually excited to be running a blog again. It's been a while.

So, let's start with the obvious:

The Blog

I wrote about the move already and in the meanwhile I have:

• changed the themes and color-themes more often than I care to admit to myself (and since I am now able to install themes there will be more changes coming soon)
• changed the domain only to change it back
• changed the url-format (now using /post/ for, well, posts)
• updated and imported posts despite having had the idea to start "fresh" (there goes that)
• and something that I probably forgot

That's quite the summary.

I am of course nowhere near the end of updating/importing posts. I planned to import all the weeknotes (which I have now done), and next will import my photojournal entries of which I am in fact rather proud of, and as well as the last few retrievable entries from my old, vintage actually, photoblog. I will import those and those posts that are linked to from within either of those entries in the coming weeks.

That's the plan.

What I figured during all the importing and updating though is the appearance of a red-line. Almost every Weeknote after a somewhat longer break (such as this one) has the common theme of me moving this blog from one host to another and about buying changing domains. It boggles my mind.

Sure, I do know that I move this blog all the time, that's not new information, but still having the posts telling me this, is another. Every time I also wrote about how that would now hopefully be the last time.

Here are some links to illustrate this:

• from last year: Weeknotes 2024-01 (note that I switched in between this and the previous at the least once)
• 2022: Weeknotes - The Hello World Edition
• 2022: Weeknote #15 (moved to Micro.blog)
• June 21: Weeknote 12 (moved from Blot to WP)

Naturally I wrote also about buying one .blog domain (just like I did during this week) and then end up not using it.

And these are only a few examples I noticed while importing things, there are surely plenty more in posts that I haven't (yet) imported.

All of this is tragic on an almost comical level and it raises quite a few questions, some of which I don't know do I want to know the answer even. Even though no harm is done, this is rather time-consuming and it would be nice to get out of this loop.

I want to say that I usually move for "good" reasons or with "good intentions", but it seems that most often I move because I don't blog that much, and then feel a "fresh start" (oh my that sounds familiar) will do the trick to re-start my blogging habit.

So what can I do?

I don’t know, but I guess the best plan of action would be to simply try to write and publish stuff. Maybe even the blog challenge will be helpful. As long as I write and publish the blog chances are that I am not getting bored.

Sounds good?

The Social(s)

Judging by the timestamp of the exported following_accounts.csv I have left/deleted my last remaining (or so I believe) social media presence, which had been on Fosstodon.org, on the 9th of May 2025. I have told no one and have not made a big fuzz about it. Not even a little post here on the blog. Just deleted, and boom, thanks for all the fish.

So I left, no big deal, I tend not to be that active of a person in any way, but I missed reading my timeline in one way or the other. Sure, I do follow my RSS feeds, but it is not quite the same.

With this blog, and Ghost's Activity Pub integration, however things change and I am able to come to come back into the Fediverse. I still have to restore my following list, which I have to manually, but things are shaping up already.

You can follow me if you want to at: @sven@svbck.org

And now to something completely different:

Reading

During the past week(s) I finished reading:

• Toshikazu Kawaguchi: Tales from the Cafe
• Sosouke Natsukawa: The Cat Who Saved Books
• Ernest Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea

and currently I am reading Michael Palin's Diaries, There And Back

new favourite Pen

Okay, this didn't happen exactly during the last week, more like past few weeks, but I definitely have with the Uni Kuru Toga 0.5 with a 2B refill a pencil that I continue to enjoy every-single-time I use it.

I will write about this in a separate post at some point.

Helix

I haven't had much need to use a text-editor during the past week, especially because I enjoy the Ghost editor to write now, which saves me from all the made-up hassle to "figure out" or "optimize" my "writing workflow" but when I needed to use a text-editor I opted most of the time for Helix for whatever reason.

I think this is it for the time being and hopefully the next post will not be another 8 months away.

100 Days to Offload 15/100