WHY I AM STARTING A BLOG IN 2026

Introduction

I don’t know about you, but to me starting a blog seems like something people did 20 years ago. With the rise of social media, writing a blog became something unnecessary.“Why write a blog when you can just post about it on your favorite social media platform?” Yet with this post I would like to convince you (and maybe even myself) that the act of writing about life and publishing it in a mindful manner might be a good idea.

The lost art of dedicated devices

Lately I’ve been (re)exploring the idea of dedicated devices. Sometime, around 20 years ago I believe we started with putting every possible idea, invention, ... into one device we now call smartphones. Doing this is in itself not per se bad. But I believe that this rise of “everything platforms” could be harmful.

Let’s take Instagram as an example. It started out around 2010 as a simple photo sharing platform. Its main feature: filters. 15 years later Instagram, taken over by Meta has become a world-wide advertising network constantly fighting for your attention by pushing ads, short-form videos, messages from that one old groupchat and even (for a short test time during covid) shopping functionalities! Instagram is becoming, like many others an everything platform. don’t even get me started on TikTok -_-

My solution to all of these platforms: dedicated devices. Having one platform act as one solution for one problem makes it way easier to compartmentalize your attention.

• I use Apple Music for playing Music
• I use Instagram for looking at pictures of the day-to-day life of my friends
• I use LetterBoxd to track my movies and look and write reviews about them.
• I use WhatsApp and iMessage to message my friends and keep up with group chats

I don’t really have a platform to share some of my longer thoughts. I could try journaling on paper but that doesn’t solve the issue of sharing. So like any other self-respecting software developer, I started creating a website.

The solution

A blog seems to me like the perfect solution. I can write about my thoughts, day-to-day life, projects,... and share them with you! My goal with this blog is to start writing about everything I do. I hope that by doing this I will become more attentive to the good and the bad, and I think it also makes a pretty nice opportunity at looking back.

I have never been fond of New Year’s goals, so I won’t make one, but I hope that by starting this blog I can write one short update every month. Sometimes I might write a technical in-depth story about a project that’s been keeping me up, sometimes I might write about what events I’ve been going to and another time I might write about how I just love this new album I am listening to. All in all I just hope to write about things I am passionate about, and share them with you.

Thank’s for reading. Hope to see you next month ʕっ•ᴥ•ʔっ