---
id: jamie-thingelstad-blog
title: Jamie Thingelstad blog
summary: My personal blog since June 2004, more than 10,000 posts of writing, links, and photos, now published on Micro.blog.
collection: Publishing
status: active
url: https://www.thingelstad.com/
started: 2004-06-02
topics:
  - open-web
  - archives
sources:
  - kind: website
    url: https://www.thingelstad.com/
    role: website
    sitemap: https://www.thingelstad.com/sitemap.xml
    feed: https://www.thingelstad.com/feed.json
  - kind: github
    repository: jthingelstad/thing-hugo
    role: theme
  - kind: github
    repository: jthingelstad/thingles.github.io
    role: historical
  - kind: website
    url: https://www.thingelstad.com/2021/04/28/four-great-years.html
    role: reference
connections:
  - to: weekly-thing
    label: posts are syndicated in
    detail: Weekly Thing republishes my blog posts, connecting the newsletter to my ongoing personal writing.
    source: https://weekly.thingelstad.com/
story:
  color: "#a36852"
  introduction: A personal life, written in public.
  engineering:
    - The blog has run on .Text, WordPress, Pelican, Squarespace, Jekyll, and Micro.blog.
    - Micro.blog is the current publishing authority. Thing Hugo is the theme I am building for it.
    - Longer writing, shorter updates, and photographs share one personal archive.
    - Weekly Thing republishes blog posts as part of the newsletter.
  stack:
    - Micro.blog
    - Hugo
    - Open web
  related:
    - weekly-thing
  questions:
    - How has the blog changed over time?
    - How does the blog connect to Weekly Thing?
  source: https://www.thingelstad.com/
  sourceLabel: Read the blog
  started: Blogging since June 2004
page: https://thingelstad.xyz/things/jamie-thingelstad-blog/
---

# Jamie Thingelstad blog

My personal blog since June 2004, more than 10,000 posts of writing, links, and photos, now published on Micro.blog.

I had a website before I had a blog. I [count June 2, 2004](https://www.thingelstad.com/2025/01/12/if-i-was-born-and.html) as the blog’s official start, the date of its [first post](https://www.thingelstad.com/2004/06/02/expose-of-the.html), and the archive also holds posts dated as far back as 2000 that I added to it later. I found I enjoyed writing in public: telling stories about my life and sharing the projects I was working on. The habit has lasted more than 20 years and over 10,000 posts. The blog is personal and noncommercial.

The blog has moved platforms several times. It started on .Text, a Windows .NET blogging package, and [moved to WordPress](https://www.thingelstad.com/2006/11/25/migrating-text-to.html) in 2006. Apart from a [brief move to Pelican](https://www.thingelstad.com/2014/03/16/i-flopped-httpstcozmirtevd.html) in March 2014, it stayed on WordPress until April 2016, when I [moved it to Squarespace](https://www.thingelstad.com/2016/04/20/moved-my-blog.html), and then to [Jekyll](https://www.thingelstad.com/2017/10/29/managing-years-of.html), hosted first on GitHub Pages and then [on Netlify](https://www.thingelstad.com/2018/12/29/macro-blog.html). I began using Micro.blog in April 2017. In May 2020 I [imported the whole Jekyll site](https://www.thingelstad.com/2020/05/02/importing-jekyll-site.html) into it, more than 1,600 posts and 800MB of images, and Micro.blog has been the blog’s home ever since.

Over the years the writing grew from mostly longer articles to include short updates and, more and more, photographs, as phones made posting easier. My blog posts from each week are also republished in the Weekly Thing.