Blogging on Matt Langford

The Ever Evolving Blog

Tue, 21 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0500

I almost titled this post something along the lines of Rethinking the Rethinking of the Rethinking of My Blog. Fortunately, common sense won out and that didn’t make the cut. But essentially that’s what this is. Let’s recap:

I decided to move my personal blog away from Micro.blog .
I chose Jekyll/Netlify as the destination.
I made some further tweaks to that setup.

And now, I scrapped all of that and ended up on Bear.

Rethinking Webmentions

Tue, 14 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0500

In the transition to a new personal blog, I initially wanted to fully incorporate webmentions . I even designed and coded a mostly custom setup that included a beautifully formatted facepile, replies list, and on and on.

Making My Blog Fully My Own

Sun, 12 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0500

Let me be clear from the start: I’m not leaving Micro.blog . In fact, I currently have more sites hosted on Micro.blog than not, including all my custom themes and documentation sites. Micro.blog is an excellent platform, and I continue to recommend it to anyone looking for a simple, community-focused blogging experience.

But for my personal blog, I wanted something different. I wanted to dive deeper into the IndieWeb rabbit hole, gain more granular control over security implementations, and have the flexibility to experiment with web technologies in ways that a hosted platform doesn’t easily allow. This post details that transition, the reasoning behind it, the decisions I made, and the technical implementations that shaped this site.