個人サイト管理人に50の質問

50 Questions for Personal Site Administrators

Shamelessly borrowed from bikobatanari.art/posts/202… who also provides context on where this trend originated.

• Please tell us your name and its origin.

A couple of years ago I was trying to come up with a username. The kind someone else might have created in high school and stuck with for the next 20 years. I was looking for something that could represent me, wasn’t already taken everywhere, and wasn’t directly associated with my day job or anything I’ve done previously on the internet. Not entirely sure how I stumbled on the word, but “Contrariwise” was an instant hit among friends.

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I notice that when someone makes a post that micro.blog shortens to a title + link, if that title isn’t descriptive of the content, there’s 0% chance I’ll click through to see what it’s about. Need to consider that in my own posts.

Updated my version of a “now” page to add podcasts, since they’re the majority of my engagement with both news and media. thewizardly.com/now/

By Way Of An Introduction

I suppose it’s only fitting to announce the existence of my new blog on my blog, and by extension the places it’ll automatically cross-post. I’m here!

The main place to find me is thewizardly.com. IndieWeb technology fully supported. Webmentions? We gottem. POSSE to BlueSky? We got that too.

My goal is to make it as easy as possible to fill your eyeholes with dripping hot words. Just slather them on. Wherever it is that you happen to pay attention to things, I want to be there, staring blankly into your soul.

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