Blog Questions Challenge
Why did you start blogging in the first place?
The short answer: I got sick of Twitter.
The longer answer: I used to have a Livejournal in the very early 2000s and really enjoyed posting a couple times a week about what anime I was watching, or my favorite DDR music, and so on. I wanted another spot like that, especially something where I could ramble without having to use a service like Twitlonger or chop everything up into a thread of a dozen tiny messages.
But before this website had anything resembling a blog, it was just a personal experiment to refamiliarize myself with HTML and CSS. The blog part came about kind of accident. I wrote up a thing about perserving items online that you enjoy kind of in a mad rush because I was having difficulty getting to sleep. Originally it sat on the sidebar alongside the Polaroids and the Linkdump, but shortly after I made a new Ramblings section and threw it in there. And once Ramblings was a thing, well, I had to make more.
What platform are you using to manage your blog and why did you choose it? Have you blogged on other platforms before?
Since this whole thing came about because I wanted to get back into the swing of HTML and CSS, all of it is hand-coded and then the html files are uploaded to Neocities. It's very old school-- not by choice, but due to lack of knowledge of anything else!
I already mentioned the Livejournal, and after that I had both a Tumblr and a Blogspot blog. They're both great for saying what you want to say and letting someone else handle the website part of things, but I specifically wanted something that I made entirely by myself.
And by "entirely by myself" I also mean "sometimes I found stuff on Codepen and reverse-engineered it enough to mold it into whatever shape I needed for some weirdly specific thing".
I should also mention Cohost. I fuckin' loved that site dearly, and I'm sad it's gone, but at the same time if it was still around I don't know if I would have kept up with beeks.cool as much as I have.
How do you write your posts? For example, in a local editing tool, or in a panel/dashboard that’s part of your blog?
Started in the Neocities editor (Idle Fingers 4ever), moved to Notepad++, and now I'm on Geany since moving to Linux. It's very nice but sometimes Geany has a bad habit of not saving what theme I'm on (Darcula) so it'll start up in big ol' bright white mode. Not the worst thing ever in the grand scheme of things, but lightly annoying.
When do you feel most inspired to write?
Whenever I'm nowhere near my computer 
. Sometimes at work I'll grab my phone and jot a few lines down and save it as an email draft. Some of these eventually get molded into actual-factual posts, but many of them go nowhere. I've got a folder full of html files of rambles in various states of being done. Maybe this one will escape the folder!
Do you publish immediately after writing, or do you let it simmer a bit as a draft?
The only one I can think of that DIDN'T simmer was the first one about backing stuff up.
What’s your favourite post on your blog?
Ah jeez it's impossible for me to consider anything I've made to be good, BUT I do feel oddly proud of these ones:
Any future plans for your blog? Maybe a redesign, a move to another platform, or adding a new feature?
Actually, yes. Like I've said, beeks.cool started as a personal exercise-- I never meant for it to get updated regularly, and when it does, it's a hassle. Every time a new ramble gets added, I have to update it to Neocities, update the previous ramble with a link for the newest one at the bottom, update the Ramblings page, update the RSS feed, and (usually) put a little blurb on the index. I find myself subconsciously not wanting to write smaller, more frequent stuff, because then it means having to go through the whole update shebang.
It's time to take the next step and get all of this to happen automatically. Obviously the easiest answer would be to move to something like Bear or Pika, and I think both of those platforms are cool, but I'm looking for a website that can also be a project. I want to learn how to do all of that myself. A surprisingly large amount of people whose blogs I really appreciate seem to be on Eleventy, and that's what I've currenly got my eye on. But I find it to be fairly daunting, and that's why I keep kicking the can down the street.