Moving to Substack

I have long had in mind blogging again. The heydays of blogging are over, but I miss the long-form writing, no matter how many people read it. Writing is often a way of clearing things out of my head, and leaving some kind of trail.

My previous blog, at http://ming.tv, was running on software I wrote myself. It worked great for the purpose, and a few hundred other people used it too. If I had paid better attention, I could maybe have gone places with that software, but I didn’t realize that it was pretty damned good for its time. Now it no longer is. 15,000 lines of old code that would be very hard to bring up to date.

So, I looked for something else that would be easy to move into. Substack seems to fit the bill. And, quite amazingly, it was willing to import all my old posts from Ming the Mechanic, and did a good job at it. It didn’t have to, but it seems to make sense to have some continuity, even though I didn’t do anything for a decade.