I’m happy having my own shed on the internet and see myself when reading this article. As fun as it was learning all this craft, that must be so daunting today.
If you take just one thing away from this article, I want it to be this: please build your own website. A little home on the independent web.
On a tangent, the seed “leaving Gmail” keeps growing in me:
Laura Kalbag gave a great talk about digital privacy at FFConf 2019, and it was this talk that spurred me on to ditch Gmail and set up a paid-for email account. I recommend giving it a watch.