every new diary starts with metadiarying

Part of the reason that I started to convert to this web-output-friendly system is that I'd like to be able to write more frequently in a public-facing kind of a way. I think I have this sewn up (though I'm going to be tweaking things for a while). But I do have a little bit of a decision to make: do I want to use this as a personal journal as well? I feel super-squicky about that. While I would like to write in public more, I need to have a space that is safe for me to be dumb and annoying. Clearly the most probable outcome of me starting to post in public regularly is that no one ever reads anything that I write, unless I happen to direct them at it. But it's also the case that a desired outcome is for other people to discover that I write things. In that case, I need to stick to my old rule that I shouldn't write things on the Internet if I don't want them to appear on the front page of a newspaper.

The other thing that I'm missing is the ability to upload things from my phone: I am quite firmly committed in this setup to the plain-text-file approach, which really precludes any server-side uploading. I can certainly edit Markdown files on my phone, but it'll take some doing for me to have a "blog upload" button like all of the cool socials do.

On the third hand, my concentration is so much better when I'm writing at a proper computer that perhaps I should make it challenging and annoying to upload from a phone.

I wonder if I can use something simple like .htaccess to password-protect stuff, so that I can put it online but not have to worry about what's public. A question for the future.