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Let's start from the basics: can you introduce yourself?
I am a Slovenian in my 30s. I was born in Ljubljana during my country's independence war - if you count the independence war from when we announced the independence to the time the army left to wage a lot worse war in the rest of Balkan. I grew up in an entrepreneurial and very supportive family.
I have been a weird person even as a kid – preferring to spend my time reading books. I was both getting awards for study achievements and getting into fights with other people, mostly boys. Did not get into too much trouble for this, as parents did not want to complain that their son was beaten by a girl.
That energy might be a reason why some people are afraid of me. Got that feedback both in high school and during my master’s in Vienna. Even though I did not bite anybody since primary school. Or got into a fight since high school, and even these were karate competitions.
I am a nice and cuddly person. Trust me on this.
I studied economics, where I fell in love with the exchange program and was their big supporter. Which is a surprise to the people that know me, because I really don't like travelling. I ended up spending some time in Leipzig, Eger, Vienna, and Bratislava. In Eger, I tested if I could be a teacher by teaching in the language school. Loved teaching, realised that I don't like school-like environments. Added cognitive science as the additional master's program. Unlike the economics masters, I never finished the cognitive science master thesis.
When I was finished with the courses for cognitive science, I realised that I don't want to end up in academia. Which meant I needed to find a job. I went over all of my hobbies and skills, picked multiple that I would not mind doing 40 hours a week and that would give me the freedom to choose my work environment the quickest.
The winner was programming. That is how I ended up being a software engineer in a startup. Five years and two acquisitions later, I work for the multinational enterprise.
I also volunteer as tag wrangler for the Archive of Our Own (AO3) and as analyst for the Ace Community Survey.
Outside of tech spaces, one can currently also find me in different university guest lectures, playing go at the local library, dancing, and in different queer events (I am aro ace).
In the free time I spend a lot of time reading books, writing, mostly blogging and fanfiction with some original fiction, learning languages mostly by struggling through reading books and writing in them, and walking. I spend also some time gardening and cooking.
I am also hoping I will manage to get back to drawing and back in the storytelling games like Fiasco and Crossroads. Also, standup comedy, though I am not sure I can say getting back for this, as I only did one routine at the open mic before.
What's the story behind your blog?
The very short answer as to why I have a blog is Jure Čuhalev.
It started one warm evening in the year 2016. After the Toastmasters meeting at the local city museum, we moved to the Le Petit, the cafe on the other side of the square. I was sitting with him, and we discussed multiple things: the book The Diamond Age, Soylent (he was for, I against, which is hilarious, because he later became known also for his bread making) and also the benefits of blogging.
It was sold to me as something that will change my life.
That blogging part of the conversation was convincing enough, that I picked the domain and the cheapest hosting on one of the two local hosting companies I knew and started a blog.
Looking back, it was a weird timing, because it was a summer before I started attending two master’s programs at the same time. I was quitting Toastmasters because of it. And yet, I thought I had the time and energy to start a blog.
Then again, Jure always had this talent to make you try things, you have at least some interest in. I know I submitted my first talk to tech conference because of the conversation we had at Pritličje, a local place in the city centre. My speech even got accepted.
He is still convincing people to start their own blogs.
Not that I was not writing on the internet before that. By that time, I have been publishing fanfiction on the fanfiction.net and original fiction on their sister site for years. I also had a string of writing for content farms. Not that the later was very successful, but it did pay for my train ticket back home from Leipzig.
Blogging is definitely a better choice than writing for content farms. Though I guess with the large language models, they might no longer even be a thing.
My blog stayed mostly the same in that time. All the changes since then were incremental. Like changing the topics, I wrote about, adding some pages, that I am a heavy user of, like book related pages and becoming more social through my blog.
Still blogging under my name from the analogue world.
What does your creative process look like when it comes to blogging?
I have more ideas of what to write about than I will ever have the time to peruse and pursue. Simply living the life normally gives me all these ideas.
I can listen to the talk in the conference, and I will have questions or musings, that can bloom into the blog posts. I can document the leanings, what technical problem was I dealing with, what mistakes did I do at go, how I am approaching the pruning of the apple tree. Sharing all the interesting facts one comes across can also build up to interesting blog posts.
The life itself and how the people act are constant source of the befuddlement and amusement. We live in a very weird world. Which is also full of amazement and wonder.
Even with that, I prefer to get my inspiration from other people. A lot of my posts are a reaction to something. Maybe somebody was wrong on the internet. Maybe somebody was right on the internet.
Maybe somebody simply made me have interesting ideas. Reading other people’s works or simply have any conversation with another human being can be a constant source of ideas for blogs. Assuming it is a simple connection between inspiration and the writing, I do try to mention it in the post. Sometimes I skip it, if it was a private conversation, though not always.
I also like to participate in the blogging carnivals and fanfiction challenges. The constrains make it easier to focus. Also, a lot of times there would be topics, that I would not usually think about. It helps me expand what I write about.
Plus, sometimes they are simply amazingly fun experiences.
I think the most fun event or challenge I participated in was the Yuumori Rare Ships Drabble Days. The environment was extremely supportive, a lot of innovative stories were posted, and it was fun building on each other ideas. I still look back fondly on the cats. I also got my first fanart there.
It helps that these are one of the nicest people imaginable.
Here in the indie web/small web/quiet web/social web or whatever name we are using these days, we are blind to how social and creative the rest of the web can be. Probably because of the predominance of the tech-adjacent people.
We, tech people, overcomplicate everything.
Once I get space and inner interest in the idea, I write it down. Most of the time I write blog posts in one sitting. I write in version of Written? Kitten!, that I also host on my own website. My version tells me about some of the words I am trying to avoid, like could, just, but and so on.
More importantly, it allows me to upload my own local collection of pictures to motivate me. Kittens, bunnies and puppies are… alright. Though, since the original version uses Flickr, sometimes something completely different will show. Like a parking lot or real people’s pictures.
Not that motivating, right?
I would much rather be looking at the cute pictures of Albert James Moriarty. I love this character – he oozes confidence, while inside he is an insecure murdering puppy with a huge bundle of problem. I am not looking only at him, there are occasional other manga and anime characters.
Other very helpful tools that I am using are browser spellchecker and dictionaries. When I say dictionaries, I mean dictionaries. I had to recently change one of them, because they replaced the dictionary part with the translation box.
Dictionaries are one of the most amazing tools I know. A lot of times I would not be sure about the word I had in mind, or I would have the word in the wrong language. Dictionaries can help with that a lot.
I use them even more extensively, when I write blog posts in the languages, I am not fluent in.
If anybody knows of any offline dictionaries, that can work on Linux, please tell me about it. They can be paid, because I will pay for that.
In some cases, the piece will require some more thinking. In this case, the writing will involve walking and thinking during walking, writing parts of the pieces on the physical paper, and writing out of order.
I think about ideas a lot while walking, and multiple times these ideas grew to something I discussed in the blog post. Or I would think about how to structure something and what to include and exclude – a habit I got from the times I was making the speech, while on the bike on the way to a Toastmasters meeting.
In rare cases, I will do some structuring edits or rewrites. I will change the order of the points and then rewrite some parts for flow. Or I will write some sections again and use the new version.
I don't do line edits, mostly because I have yet to find the way to make them enjoyable for me.
Once the text is finished, it goes in my local version of the blog, where it waits for my manual push online.
Do you have an ideal creative environment? Also do you believe the physical space influences your creativity?
I studied cognitive science; I am required to believe that physical environment influences all our cognition, including creativity. My professors would disavow me otherwise. Maybe I will even get assassinated, in order to stop sprouting these blasphemies.
Joking aside, I can write almost everywhere. I have written during lectures, both school and non-school, I have written during meetings, I have written outside in the park, in the coffee shops, on the trains and buses. I have written on the small pieces of paper, in the notebooks, on the phone, on computer, and on the tablet. I have written with the music, with the series in the background, in silence.
I have yet to find the place where I cannot write at all.
I did notice that sometimes the writing will become some engrossing, that I will not be aware of any sounds that are happening around. Oh, I was in the middle of the conversation? I am sorry, I did not catch a single word of that.
I do try to not write during the conversations. At least not during ones requiring my participation and attention. For online meetings, I do not always succeed.
I write differently depending on where and when I am writing. For example, I write longer prose on the computer than on the paper. I write more fluid sentences on the paper than on the tablet. In the evening, it is easier to drop in flow of writing.
I develop ideas differently, depending on whenever I have silence in the background, whenever I am partly listening to what other people are talking or whenever I have some anime, movie or music I am very familiar with in the background.
It is much more likely for me to work with series on the background, than with music. My interest in music is below average – people are surprised when they hear that I can go days without hearing any and I am alright with that.
I can only work with the new series or movies in the background, if I have zero interest in them. Series or movies that I want to use, must be something I overwatched way too many times already.
Mostly because of convenience, I do the majority of my writing at home on my computer. If I am in my room, then I will usually have something in the background. If I am writing outside, then I will not.
I do a lot more writing inside than outside.
What I want to experience more is writing with other people in the same space. To be able to write, and at the same time exchange ideas and collaborate and ask questions. In a way, to turn another one of my hobbies more social.
A question for the techie readers: can you run us through your tech stack?
I am using Domovanje to both register my domain and to host my website. I have been using them since I started in 2016. I like that they are a local company, employing people here. That means, that they are bound by the same laws as me, and not by some bullshit ones from a different continent. The same for social norms. Also, if something goes wrong, I can get the technical support in my language. Even if I only needed it once.
When I started, I picked the cheapest hosting that included space beside email. The description said that this plan is for people creating a couple of pages in FrontPage or Dreamweaver. I would like to say that I get LAMP environment, except I do not have the ability to use databases. At least the ones with the client-server infrastructure, like Postgres or MySQL. The PHP part works, even though I am not using it at the moment, and I had been checking the Linux shell and Apache configuration before, so these parts of LAMP are included.
While the plan no longer exists and I had been given upgrades, the ability to use databases was not one of them. Instead, I got the ability to use Python and NodeJS and I think Ruby, only the first of which I use at all. This does influence what tech I picked for my blog.
Every time I need to pay for a new period, I am thinking about if maybe I need to upgrade to something more powerful. The final decision so far was always no.
For the blog, I started by using htmly. It was alright, except if I remember correctly, it required JavaScript to work. Something I did not see the need for.
I then switched to Nikola, the static site generator written in Python. I am still using the default theme, which I adapted for myself. I also wrote plugins to help with generating RSS feed to allow me to exclude my AO3 comments, the plugin that generates my read books page from the bib file and plugin that checks my language metadata, which some of the features on my blog depend on.
I still update my blog manually through the FTP.
Besides the ability to run on the hosting plan I had, the most important consideration for picking the technology was the ability to work on it offline. I tend to get easily distracted by all the shiny things, so I am forcing myself spend some time without the internet. I wanted the site, that I can work on it offline.
I did not want to create the lists of things I needed to do online, like uploading the new posts. Here I can simply rebuild the site and start upload, and all the changes will be already there.
Another important consideration was to require as little maintenance as possible. I have helped people with their WordPress problems before. I know that keeping everything up to date and secure requires regular work. I am also aware from work, that updating can break things.
I did not want to deal with any of that. Which is why my site is mostly HTML with CSS and a bit of vanilla JavaScript adding some additional, not strictly necessary, functionality. Less chance of somebody managing to hack into my website.
I don’t remember having many problems with Nikola and I am happy using it for more than half a decade.
I still make my blog accessible through the http. I am still using a tablet, that I got for my 18th birthday. The manufacturer stopped updating it years ago, before that incident, where every site had to upgrade their SSL. The default browser on the tablet cannot access most pages because of it.
It is important we can keep the old tech working. If for no other reason, then for the environmental one. That is my very tiny contribution to that.
I do also maintain the Python API. One functionality helps with generating some book metadata from the ISBN or Cobiss link. Cobiss is a national IT system for libraries. I use it to cut the time on the manual entry for books. Another functionality is a helper for posting the AO3 comments I wrote on my blog. API also includes the RSS generator for AO3, but that last one does not have anything to do with my blog.
Given your experience, if you were to start a blog today, would you do anything differently?
I would become more social sooner.
Not that this was something I was capable of doing when I started my blog. At the time, I was not the person that was capable of being social online. I needed to upgrade my skills of stepping away from the computer and my general social skills. I also needed to get through some mental blocks related to the online socialisation.
I improved quite a lot on the mental blocks side, even though there are still lower mountains remanning.
What helped was being a bit more social. The blog reply thing we did with Tracy and others made me much more aware of how I think about social interaction. Which made it easier to slowly start moving pass it. People made me feel welcome, like Devastatia, for making me feel like my emails are appreciated no matter what rambling was I writing her, or James for making IndieWeb online meetings very welcoming and to always be ready to get excited about any innate idea. All the numerous people that I exchanged emails and AO3 comments with. I still feel warm remembering some of them.
I even got a very positive and unexpected surprise, when I got to meet somebody I met online, when they were visiting my city. They also wrote a very nice review of their visit of Ljubljana. I love my city, and I want to show a bit of that to other people.
Because I think the social aspect of being online is important, is why I started the IndieWeb Carnival. Not that I have ever imagined it growing into what it became. After all, it started on the spur of the moment.
Last year, I have started to participate in a couple of Carnival of Aros topics as a participant. I found the entire experience to be a lot of fun, talking about it in one of the IndieWeb meetings.
The next day James sent me an email, nudging me to do something with the idea. I was at the seaside and I remember writing the first call for submissions outside, while I was waiting for the potatoes to bake in the oven.
I imagined it would be a couple of us writing posts on the common topic until it peters out. This is the reason why I went the path of least resistance and named it IndieWeb Carnival, using the IndieWeb wiki to organise it.
The first couple of months were like that, and then it exploded. I have zero idea why. I guess it tapped into something people wanted to do anyway. Though if I had to make a guess, I would point to foreverliketh.
I had thought about how the name and wiki could be barriers to participating. Well, somebody (including me) can always create another one, if that becomes too much of a problem.
I don't think there can be too many of them. More of them, more topics for people to choose from. I also think I prefer the smaller ones, where I can try emailing all the interesting submissions as well. The IndieWeb one can now have so many, it is already work just to read through all of them.
Not becoming social for years have been helpful into making sure I don't let the social pressure dictate, what I can and cannot write about. It is simply, that I have gotten the same message in Toastmasters and during fanfiction writing. I did not need to learn it the third time.
I am apparently also fucked up and fucking weird. That helps. Since I cannot appear normal anyway, why try? (I am still trying anyway)
I was worried that I would regret blogging under my own name. It had not happened yet.
From the technical perspective, I think I would pick a national domain and not an EU one. Simply because of the whole problem, where the UK people lost access to their EU domains after Brexit, if they were not living in the EU or had EU citizenship. Makes you aware of how we rent domains, and they can take them from us based on something we might not have a power to do anything against.
I don't think our politicians are stupid enough to try to leave EU. I would still prefer to not have to bet on this.
Otherwise, I am very satisfied with my current setup. I would not change that.
Based on people's financial, time, technical, mental/emotional and lifestyle situations, I would not suggest everybody to copy my way of doing it. For some other configurations of above, better ways of blogging exist.
Or maybe the solution is to not blog at all. While I adore writing with all my heart, I know not everybody does. If people have something more enjoyable to do, that they would better to that.
Life it too short to spend it on an unenjoyable hobby.
Financial question since the Web is obsessed with money: how much does it cost to run your blog? Is it just a cost, or does it generate some revenue? And what's your position on people monetising personal blogs?
Before I had a blog, I attended multiple presentations and workshops about how to make money with one own website. They were simply not inspiring enough for me to create a website. Mostly because of the whole 'write based on search traffic'. My interest lies outside of the most popular search terms.
I could not imagine myself writing about travelling or fitness or finance. Or whatever the topic of the day would be. I don’t even know which celebrities are popular. Is Benedict Cumberbatch still popular?
It did made me able to understand the perception of web's obsession with money. Even if it is not true for the majority of the web I interact with every day.
My financial cost comes to about 50 euros per year. I pay about 20 euros for the domain, which I prepaid for 5 years last time I needed to extend it. I pay around 30 euros for hosting, which I pay on the yearly basis. I don't pay for anything else related to my blog.
The opportunity cost would be a lot higher, considering all the hours that went to this blog. Not that I can assign it a clear money sign.
I don't monetise my blog for two reasons. I don't think that what I am providing on my blog is worth spending the money on. I also have a relatively well paying job. I can avoid the figuring out and maintenance of the monetisation by simply not having one.
Monetising anything is work on top of doing whatever activity one is trying to monetise.
I don't have anything against people trying to monetise their blogs. In the ideal world, nobody would need to. We don't live in that world.
Plus, I like paying for the products that give me enjoyment.
I have bought books, courses, programs and other stuff based on people's websites before. It can go in both directions. For example, I am currently slowly going through the Kit Walker's books (I love their Jay Moriarty series). I found their books first and then also started to enjoy their newsletter and blogging. Their newsletter is a short delight.
I have also donated to people for their books and games they posted freely on their websites. I try to do it every time I finished and enjoyed one of their works like that. Once in a blue moon, I would also donate to a blog writer, simply because I like reading them.
I don't pay for any subscription. I don't have anything against them on principle, I simply prefer to be consciously aware of what I am paying for, as that makes it easier to deal with my personal finances.
I use adblocker. I am not going to disable it for anything. Adblocker, forced colours and reader mode make the internet usable for me. No, I don't care that this is how you keep the lights on the blog or how much time you spent on the design.
We are all responsible for our own web experience.
I am sure that I missed a lot of things, like sponsored posts, affiliate links, joined ventured deals, giveaways, and more. These days, I don't see them much in my normal internet browsing, so I will skip commenting on them.
Time for some recommendations: any blog you think is worth checking out? And also, who do you think I should be interviewing next?
That is a hard question. Way too many excellent blogs exist, and I sometimes regret, that I don't have more time to perusing all of them. That is ignoring all the people, that are using the web in an interesting and creative ways, that is not blogging.
Internet is an interesting place.
I think we can start with one of the most fun examples of 'blogging' that I know, which is An Unauthorized Fan Treatise - a novel written in a blogging format. What makes it even more entertaining is, that this is how parts of the internet actually look like.
Sacha Judd had a great talk about the similar parts of the internet and I still remember walking out of it excited. Then talking to people there and realising internet does not look like that for them.
What do you do on the internet, if you never accidently stumbled to a long meta about how two celebrities are actually a couple? With detailed analysis of pictural evidence.
That is what I consider a normal internet. If you find this in any way unusual, then don't search for Snapeists. Or go into any spaces like that. Keep your child-like innocence. Because I have not touched on anything really weird yet.
If you are interested in the asexuality, then I suggest starting with The Asexual Agenda. They check their list of current and past contributes, their blogging carnival, their blog roll and their link spams to find other blogs in this sphere.
I am still working through them. They are a goldmine of information.
I wish I had the similar resource for aromanticism, but for that topic, the blogs, carnival and conversation are simply more dispersed. Or maybe I simply did not find that one source yet.
I have a couple of historical blogs, that I enjoy reading. My favourite one is Going Medieval, both for the subtopics chosen and the tone of the blog.
The most interesting design of the blog I know is by Nic Chan.
I guess on the end I can add some of the first blogs, that I was reading. I am sure they shaped the basis of how I view blogging: Scott H. Young, Steve Pavlina, Penelope Trunk, Damian, Zen Habits, Becoming minimalist and a site about Japanese food, I think it was Just Hungry. I started with the more popular blogs. I imagine that most people do.
I guess I need to take the difficulty of answering this question and finally organise my bookmarks to share all the amazing sites with other people.
As far as recommendation for future guests go, I don't really know. I am always a bit more interested in reading about the people I already know. All the recommendations I thought of would go in this direction.
I guess we can start with all the people I mentioned in this interview?
Final question: is there anything you want to share with us?
The web is more fun when it is social web. I encourage you to participate in the different creative events. I am going to list a couple of blogging carnivals to get you started:
Blogging carnivals are a great way to start participating in the social part of the web. The people are expecting submissions on their topic and as somebody that had hosted before, we want you to write and submit something. Anything. Please do. A month is generally enough time to create something, no matter how small.
Some of the topics are great fun. The most fun was when Kimberly made us write Kastlebaj poetry.
Also, one can participate as much or as little as they want. Want to send the link to one topic and then hide in the hole? That is fine. As is anything more.
Eventually this can expand to other ways of socialising. Reply to a blog post with a blog post. Comment. Write in the guestbook. Send an email. Collaborate on the same creative pieces. Participate in the events. Organise one. Join the same forums or Discord groups. Chat. Join the online calls. Meet in person.
If you want to make it easier for other people, then what you can do is include the list of lightweight questions you are always opened to answering. I stole this idea from Marr's post and I think it is amazing. I also post the questions you can start the conversation with on my main page.
I am still very early on this road of how to be social on the web. I am sure that I am not even seeing the majority of the options.
The second one is, that I am always impressed how many good creative stories people are publishing on the internet. Better known examples are big sites like AO3, Pixiv or 小説家になろう(Shusetsuka ni Narou).
It is not only these websites. People are also freely publishing their stories on their websites and blogs. A couple that I enjoyed include Heartless by arotechno, November Breaks and Bridge From Ashes by Winter Simpson or short stories by Derin Edala and multitude of people, that posted at least one short story that really touched me.
It is not only written stories, even though I am a sucker for these. I simply love reading. Comics are also written in this way. I have been enjoying Foxes in Love for a long time.
There probably exist people like that for every possible media and I think this is worth celebrating.
I would be even more interested to see stories like these in all the different languages. If you know about any, please tell me about it. I am already trying to read more books originally written in my native tongue. I will gladly add something from the non-yet-fluent languages on my plate as well.
In the internet setting, it is very easy to default to the English-language media. Even more, it is easy to default to the US media. It is easier to assume access and that people can check it out.
Yet the stories written with local perspective simply hit differently and more deeply. Stories written in different environments are simply different. I want to get more recommendations from the perspectives, I am not encountering in everyday life.
For the last point, I would like to encourage everybody create the art that they want to. Either to see or to make. I include the blogging in making art.
It does not matter if the majority of people will never be interested in it. It will be of interest to some people, that are probably dying for stuff like that, and they can simply not find it. The more diversity, the more weirdness, the more different topics and perspectives, the more chance everybody can find something for themselves.
Plus, it is not more fun to find somebody you match on something weird? Is it not boring to connect with people based on liking chocolate or driving a car? Is it not much more fun to connect on hating the chocolate, which I cannot relate to and not having a car – which was one of my better decisions that I wish everybody could adopt.
Even better, one could find another person, who enjoys writing queer historical cosy mysteries/thrillers with a-spec characters. Just an example, nothing to read into it. Or somebody with the same passion about optimising the ploughing in the local city. Or somebody with the bee-keeping hobby and honey harvesting without ever using bought sugar.
Or something different. I don’t know all the possibilities.
Let us all do our part to make the internet queerer.
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