When I was in high school, most everyone I knew had a LiveJournal. It's almost incomprehensible to me today that we'd all get home from school, do our homework, and then blog about our days. 2001 was a simpler time.
I actually still have my LiveJournal saved on an external hard drive somewhere. No need to dig it out. Let’s leave that cringe to the past.
But since then? There are things worth saving! I've uploaded slide decks of tech conferences I’ve spoken at to Twitter or GitHub. I’ve written triathlon race reports on Instagram or Facebook. The list goes on.
I am bringing Colin Lord.com back online again because I’ve realized how much stuff I’ve posted on social media over the years that’s theirs more than it’s mine.
When Threads launched, I actually kind of latched on there. I liked that they were building metaverse connections, so there was a little bit less platform lock. But it still suffers from the same core problem.
My content is only as good as somebody else's platform.
Last fall, I started trying to consolidate all my triathlon race reports and photos into one place. I realized how scattered all that content actually is. When I'm (hopefully) old and slow in a nursing home, I want an easy way to go back and find my race stats from something like Ironman Chattanooga.
As part of launching this site, all my triathlon race reports are now here in one place. If Meta vanishes overnight, I’ve got everything here as well.
Up next, I'll try to get all my web dev conference talks over the years migrated here as well. I’ll also do a post on the architecture of how I landed on this tech stack for my site.
But don't hold your breath on that old LiveJournal content ever getting migrated over. Some things deserve to vanish into the darkness of the Internet's early days. 😆
