I’m going to try setting my blog to a stream layout for a while. In my blogging history I’ve always blogged with a list-of-posts style, which is where the original design of Pika came from. It was my preference: I have an idea and an idea fits nicely with a title and if the idea isn’t somewhat fully formed, why am I sharing it? At one point I even deemed that my blog was going to only contain deeply-considered, capital-E Essays, and so any sort of streamy vibe just didn’t make sense.
When my blog became about Essays, it may not surprise anyone to learn that within months I basically stopped blogging. Thankfully I’ve been off that trip for a long time. I’m a blogger, not an essayist, after all.
Maybe I’ll try this for all …
I’m going to try setting my blog to a stream layout for a while. In my blogging history I’ve always blogged with a list-of-posts style, which is where the original design of Pika came from. It was my preference: I have an idea and an idea fits nicely with a title and if the idea isn’t somewhat fully formed, why am I sharing it? At one point I even deemed that my blog was going to only contain deeply-considered, capital-E Essays, and so any sort of streamy vibe just didn’t make sense.
When my blog became about Essays, it may not surprise anyone to learn that within months I basically stopped blogging. Thankfully I’ve been off that trip for a long time. I’m a blogger, not an essayist, after all.
Maybe I’ll try this for all of 2026? Maybe I’ll actually write some short posts without titles? Maybe with this change I’ll blog most every day? I’m not sure, but I’m curious to experiment. I also think blogging in this way will lead to a lot of Pika feature refinement as I wrestle with any shortcomings I find.