I’ve started self-hosting all my blog posts to wean myself away from commercial platforms. I wanted to support discussion, but didn’t want all the code infrastructure to support them. My blog is a static website. I wanted to keep it simple. But, I did want people reading my blog to feel invited to discuss articles and to see others’ discussing them. What I realized I really wanted was for my blog to mirror the discussion about an article that follows my announcement of the article on (n...
