Got my Mastodon and Bluesky accounts set up for cross-posting last night and it looks like everything is working. Micro.blog made it pretty straightforward to configure. I’ve never been really active on social media and have mostly just used it to consume and discover content. It will be a new experience to be generating content rather than just consuming.

Need Brighton to step it up in the second half here to keep Arsenal behind Liverpool.

Ran across a recommendation for Hardcover for book tracking. So I’ve signed up for an account. I’ll give it a try alongside Storygraph. We’ll see how it goes after a few books. Initial impressions are that the feature set seems largely the same between the two of them. The main difference I’ve seen so far is just the UI.

Currently reading: Red Rising by Pierce Brown 📚 Starting the new year with a reread. I read the first 3 in his series and want to refresh the story before going on to finish the series.

I was able to get through quite a few books last year (by my standards). Below is a list of all the books I was able to finish in the order they were read. I tried to focus on including non-fiction books for the second year in a row and was able to do much better this year. Up to 50/50 fiction/non-fiction. Looking forward to continuing this trend in 2025. I have thought about picking a theme for the non-fiction books but not sure I would be able to stay interested if the focus is too narrow.

For my first post here I think I’ll talk a bit about the motivation behind this blog and they types of content it will likely contain. The main motivating force behind this has been Dave Winer’s blog (and the thought’s therein). I started following his blog a year or so ago and really liked the style of simply posting comments throughout the day about various topics or thoughts on current events or what he was working on.