Moving from WordPress to Substack

After a decade on WordPress, it's time to try something new.

Well, shit.

I wrote my first blog post in this space on December 27th, 2015 — almost exactly a decade ago.

“Hello, world.”

I had just left Facebook, hadn’t yet formally incorporated Honeycomb, and it just felt like it was time, long past time for me to put something up and start writing.

Ten years later, it feels long past time for me to do something else. I despise WP (who doesn’t?), and there’s so much friction in getting a post out that I just don’t do it. Plus, it’s clear that to the extent that there is a vibrant ecosystem of tech writers in longform, it’s on substack. I miss tech twitter, always will. Time to give substack a try.

I’ve been working on the second edition of “Observability Engineering” for much of this year, and I have learned SO MUCH in the writing process. As soon as these rough drafts have all been turned in, I will be streaming my thoughts out via substack. They are burning a hole in my brain the longer I hold them in.

Housekeeping notes:

• I’ve tried to export the email subscribers and import them into substack, but it’s held up for manual review. I don’t know what that means.

• I won’t be able to export and bring along the comments you folks have left over the years. I’m sorry. 🙁

• I am going to leave charity.wtf pointed here for the foreseeable future, even tho I am working to port over the corpus of posts. I don’t want to break anyone’s bookmarks or article links, so I’ll leave it up here until / unless I find a solution.

If you want to go subscribe, I’m at charitydotwtf.substack.com. Here’s the blurb:

Thank you all for a wonderful 10 years together. WordPress may be a piece of shit, but the community I’ve found here has been anything but. I hope to see you on the other side.

💜💙💚💛🧡❤️💖

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