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"Media change, the blog as a constant, what an exciting topic!" I thought and planned this post, researched the beginnings of blogs and was ready to work out what the constant is. Again and again I came to the conclusion that there is only one single constant!

It starts with wanting to define what a blog actually is. Difficult. You could probably ask twenty bloggers and get twenty different answers. Let's skip the click to Wikipedia, a theoretical definition won't help us here.

What we can probably agree on is this: A blog is a chronologically arranged collection of posts on a website. At least that's a constant that runs through all blogs. But not what I'm looking for.

The difficulty alone of naming what a blog is already shows what it is not: constant. The only constant, one might think, is steady change. That's what version 1 of this post concluded.

A pretty weak argument. If someone else had presented that as an insight to me, I would close the tab at the latest now.

And so, last night we actually planned to go up to the "Energieberg" to take a look. However, it clouded over, so we stayed where we were and looked up at the sky when it cleared up.

I had brought my camera with me, even though I was pretty sure I wouldn't be able to get any decent photos without a tripod. I fiddled around a bit with the settings, long exposure time, etc. I don't have a camera suitable for that sort of thing, but you can rotate the display. So I simply laid it on the ground and took a photo:

On the small display, it seemed as if I could actually see something! Today, on the computer, the surprise came: stars! A look at the previous and following images, however, was moderately sobering:

All the long-exposure images showed exactly these star constellations, which turned out to be dust upon inspecting the camera. Yep, I am a professional. My phone (see picture at the top) did the best job.

I did see shooting stars, though—three of them, one of which was quite bright. That alone was worth it.

I've been writing for quite some time now, not only on my own blog, but also on the konzentrik blog, for the "Server Side Stories" podcast, and recently also for the Sociabli blog.

Konzentrik and Server Side Stories run under the same domain and use Kirby as CMS and my podcaster plugin. I'm primarily responsible for managing the content there, so it makes sense to extend the Obsidian Kirby Sync setup to it.

Kev asks in his blog about how we take notes, I'm happy to answer. I'm taking this question as an opportunity to write a little about my setup, without getting too technical. I'll be writing about the technology in several posts – and I already did.

I have two important rules for note-taking without which it won't work:

So if you're interested in tips and tricks for Mastodon and Bluesky, check it out. It's still very minimalistic; this is the first time I've implemented a blog with 11ty, and we're slowly getting to grips with it. Unfortunately, there's no RSS feed or anything like that yet, but that's coming. Of course, you can follow us on Mastodon and Bluesky to be informed about new posts, and I'll certainly link to some of them.

Today we're going live with a general post explaining why we started Sociabli in the first place. Next week, we'll continue with the first Mastodon tips.