On having multiple blogs

05 May, 2025

Heya!
Yep, my first post titled "On... Insert thing here". Tried and true bearblog tradition, it seems.

Anyways, I've had a couple (read: four) blogs over the years, and i felt like telling the story of how i got here.

Blog 1: Blogger.com

I first started blogging like, three or so years ago? Honestly, I'm not too sure about the timeline here. It began due to me really enjoying writing a diary, and wanting to share my thoughts online in a similar manner. So, i made a blogger.com blog because it was free and i didn't know there were alternatives. Don't really remember how i even knew blogger was a thing at that point. Alas, I deleted that blog pretty quickly, so i can't really say much about the contents - I don't remember what i wrote back then.

Blog 2: Blogger.com (again)

Give it a couple months or so, and i decided to make another blog. Blogger again, because i was used to it at that point. I used it for a quite a while, most of the stuff i wrote got published on there. I've exported all of the articles to my main website now, so i won't link to it there. This was when i really started getting into blogging. At first i had the gimmick of having the title of every article be exactly three words, but i gave up on that pretty quickly. I also started out numbering every post which i only completely stopped doing when i moved on to my next blog. I still have somewhat mixed feelings on that. On one hand, having a number in front of every blogpost title looks kind of ugly, and it doesn't really make much sense to number them, from a readers perspective at least - All of my blogposts are standalone, you don't need to read post 1-6 to understand post 7. I'd wager that that's the case for most blogs. On the other hand, it was kind of nice to know how many posts I'd approximately published. I say "approximately" because even back then i wasn't very consistent with the whole numbering thing. At first i started out just numbering all of them, but at some point i started doing decimals for low effort posts and then i dropped numbering for more high effort posts. I realized this had gotten kind of silly when i published post 22.6.

Blog 3: kamiscorner.xyz

Hey, look! We're almost in the present.
So yeah. This is currently my personal website. I still haven't quite figured out what to post over there and what to publish on bearblog. Currently it's just "whatever is most convenient at the time". Basically, all my bearblog posts are written on mobile and all my kamiscorner posts are written on desktop because my setup for that blog makes writing posts on desktop a tad more convenient than writing them in the bear editor would be.

Originally, kamiscorner started out as just a place where i would link to all my other stuff. Basically a really scuffed linktree. Back then i still used wordpress. Alas, wordpress broke for some inexplicable reason and expansehost, which was my hosting provider at the time was completely unresponsive to any of my support requests.¹

So, after about two months worth of downtime, i finally moved hosting. I know, i should've done that sooner but i was lazy and really fed up with webhosting from expansehosts shenanigans.

Anyways, that was when i started actually running my blog on that domain. I basically sat down one day and just tried figure out the quickest way to get something back online as quickly as possible and landed on deno blog. I won't link to it here because apparently the last version was released two years ago, so I don't really feel comfortable recommending it. Anyways, at the time it was great. It was literally one line of code.

You just called blog() and boom, you had a blog. It basically did everything else on its own. Just put all the posts in the posts folder it created.

Anyways, the problem i realized after using it for a while was that it wasn't all that customizable. The blog function was convenient, sure, but it also meant not being able to really make any backend changes without forking the whole package which i really didn't feel like doing.

So, i eventually switched over to the astro blog template, which im still using and recommend in case you wanna DIY your blog setup.

blog 4: kami.bearblog.dev

I found bearblog by reading some blogpost from it i don't really remember anymore. The concept really resonated with me, but the ultimate selling point for me was the discover page. What do you mean, people can actually read my posts now? So yeah, i was pretty much sold instantly, and that's how I ended up here. Feels a tad weird for this segment to be so much shorter than the other ones, but i haven't been on here for all that long yet lol.

Anyways, go ahead and check out https://kamiscorner.xyz if you want to listen to me rambling about some more random stuff. Or don't. It's a free country.