Jamie Thingelstad blog
My personal blog since June 2004, more than 10,000 posts of writing, links, and photos, now published on Micro.blog.
A personal life, written in public.
- Status
- Active Being built or operated.
- Dates
- Started Jun 2, 2004 (Blogging since June 2004)
- Where
- www.thingelstad.com/
- Topics
- The open web Archives
- Page views
- 57,857 in the twelve months to Sep 30, 2026
- Latest evidence
- Latest commit, Oct 23, 2026
I had a website before I had a blog. I count June 2, 2004 as the blog’s official start, the date of its first post, 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 in 2006. Apart from a brief move to Pelican in March 2014, it stayed on WordPress until April 2016, when I moved it to Squarespace, and then to Jekyll, hosted first on GitHub Pages and then on Netlify. I began using Micro.blog in April 2017. In May 2020 I imported the whole Jekyll site 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.
The build
- 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.
Micro.blog Hugo Open web
Activity
401 commits (61 with Claude, 317 by me, 23 by others), the first on Aug 10, 2016.
25 publications collected from its feeds, the oldest from Sep 30, 2026.
The latest weeks with activity
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Week of Oct 19, 2026 49 commits, all with Claude
- 2.0.15: descriptions of 160 characters, and /archive/ and /photos/ their own
- 2.0.14: Another Thing crimson, Things I've built green
- 2.0.13: ref tags on links to the other sites, and the blog dates from 2004
46 more commits
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Week of Oct 12, 2026 7 publications
- Published Card shop stop for Pokémon at Spitty’s Cards.
- Published Morning coffee with a nice fire.
- Published I’m bartending tonight.
4 more publications
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Week of Oct 5, 2026 8 publications
- Published My Maker Space is now in a totally workable and ready spot!
- Published WT353 — Release Notes for Every Day
- Published A world that doesn’t need new software is a world without ideas.
5 more publications
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Week of Sep 28, 2026 10 commits, all with Claude, and 10 publications
- Notebook: the v2 design, with Tinylytics and Explore with Thingy built in
- Self-host Newsreader and Source Sans 3 (SIL OFL)
- Use the first image file in photos for og:image and Pagefind
- Published I was inspired by the time analysis I had Claude do last week on what it took to send the Weekly…
- Published Had a great time cheering on the Twin Cities Marathon runners this morning!
- Published Working with Otto this morning to create a new version of my mb utility that will extend features…
7 more commits · 7 more publications
All activity, week by week. Who made each commit is from its author and co-author lines.
Sources and evidence
Observed daily from GitHub, sitemaps, feeds, the Internet Archive, and Tinylytics. Evidence never sets a status.
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www.thingelstad.com/ website
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jthingelstad/thing-hugo theme
- Repository created Apr 20, 2026 (a development record, not a launch date)
- HTML, CSS, JavaScript
- Latest commit Oct 23, 2026; 59 commits on main between Jul 1, 2026 and Oct 23, 2026
- Observed Oct 23, 2026
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jthingelstad/thingles.github.io historical
- Repository created Dec 18, 2016 (a development record, not a launch date)
- HTML, CSS, Ruby
- Latest commit Dec 28, 2018; 0 commits on master between Jul 20, 2026 and Oct 18, 2026
- Observed Oct 18, 2026
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www.thingelstad.com/2021/04/28/four-great-years.html reference
Commits and publications per month, last twelve months.
Connections
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Jamie Thingelstad blog posts are syndicated in Weekly Thing
Weekly Thing republishes my blog posts, connecting the newsletter to my ongoing personal writing. Source
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mb works with its platform Jamie Thingelstad blog
mb is a CLI and MCP interface for Micro.blog, the platform on which I publish my blog. Source
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POAP2RSS posts claims to Jamie Thingelstad blog
I configured Micro.blog so that each POAP I mint becomes a post on my blog, from my POAP2RSS feed. Source
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Thingy answers from Jamie Thingelstad blog
In June 2026 I built a semantic archive of my blog so Thingy could search it alongside the newsletter. Source
History
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milestone
The blog moves to Micro.blog
I import over 1,600 posts and 800MB of images from Jekyll into Micro.blog. Source
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milestone
The blog moves to Squarespace
I move my blog from WordPress to Squarespace. Source
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launch
The blog begins
My first blog post marks the official start of my blog. Source