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<p>I created Meta Redux a little over 3 years ago with
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the goal to start clean and write on topics that were
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meaningful to me. Today I want to examine how well did I do so far, therefore
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the extra meta title. And yeah, I’m well aware that I have some infatuation
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with the word “redux” - perhaps I just like revisiting things too much.</p>
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<p>If you don’t remember the <a href="https://metaredux.com/posts/2018/10/13/going-meta.html">Meta Redux backstory</a>, I’ll summarize it here quickly.
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Basically I had an <a href="https://batsov.com">older blog</a>, that had went dormant around 2015 due to my frustration with Octopress,
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the tool I used to publish the blog. On top of this, as my original blog was my first attempt to write, I didn’t
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do well there. I wrote a lot of crappy articles early on, because I neither had anything interesting to share, nor
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was a skilled writer. I was somewhat embarrassed by this mess and I wanted to distance myself from it and get a fresh
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start. Also, I thought that starting a new blog would be easier than dealing with a migration away from Octopress.
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The idea to have a blog with a “cool/original” name was also appealing to me - after all most people never manage
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to remember my last name (Batsov, frequently misspelled as Bastov).
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That’s how Meta Redux was born on Oct 13th, 2018, my 34th birthday.<sup id="fnref:1"><a class="footnote" href="https://metaredux.com/posts/2021/11/18/meta-redux-redux.html#fn:1" rel="footnote">1</a></sup></p>
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<p>In the next 3 years I wrote over a hundred article at Meta Redux, which is quite the achievement given that in the previous 3 years
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I had written a grand total of 3 articles. What’s even better is that I was really happy with the quality of my work.
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It’s not like a wrote some Peter Norvig-level work of art, but at least it pleased me. Objective achieved!</p>
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<p>Still, I had this lingering feeling that I cheated a bit, by starting a new
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blog. After all, everything I’ve written in the past is still (a
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reflection/snapshot of) me, regardless of how I feel about it today. I also
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wanted a clearer focus for Meta Redux, despite its deliberately unfocused
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name. As I’m writing a lot here about programming and my OSS work, I felt that
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other topics I’d occasionally write on didn’t quite fit in (e.g. tutorials and
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musings on hardware and operating systems). Still, such topics have some value
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to me and potentially to some of my readers. So what do about them?</p>
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<p>In the end of the day I’ve decided to revive <a href="https://batsov.com">“(think)”</a><sup id="fnref:2"><a class="footnote" href="https://metaredux.com/posts/2021/11/18/meta-redux-redux.html#fn:2" rel="footnote">2</a></sup> and use it to complement the topics I cover here.
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Basically, going forward I’ll limit myself here to programming (mostly Ruby and Clojure these days) and my OSS work (e.g. CIDER, RuboCop, etc), and everything else
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will go to (think). I’ve also removed some duplicated pages from Meta Redux (e.g. information about my talks and projects) and just redirected
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it to (think), for the sake of simplicity. This content originated there and I feel this is its true home.</p>
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<p>The two blogs will also retain their different visual styles - I’ve vowed to keep Meta Redux as simple as possible, and to focus solely
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on the content here. With (think) I’ve taken some artistic liberties and I adopted a “more modern” theme, that seemed better
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suited for a person site that also doubles as a blog.<sup id="fnref:3"><a class="footnote" href="https://metaredux.com/posts/2021/11/18/meta-redux-redux.html#fn:3" rel="footnote">3</a></sup></p>
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<p>I hope all this makes some sense. In hindsight probably it was a mistake to create a second blog in the first place, but I’m glad I did it.
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An experience you learn from is an experience worth having. Once again I was reminded that “less is more”.</p>
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<div class="footnotes">
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<p>Knowing me, probably I was also going through all my life failures on that day and decided that I should address at least one of them. <a class="reversefootnote" href="https://metaredux.com/posts/2021/11/18/meta-redux-redux.html#fnref:1">↩</a></p>
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<li id="fn:2">
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<p>Now (think) is also using a simple Jekyll setup. <a class="reversefootnote" href="https://metaredux.com/posts/2021/11/18/meta-redux-redux.html#fnref:2">↩</a></p>
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<p>See <a href="https://batsov.com/articles/2021/11/01/switching-to-minimal-mistakes/">https://batsov.com/articles/2021/11/01/switching-to-minimal-mistakes/</a>. <a class="reversefootnote" href="https://metaredux.com/posts/2021/11/18/meta-redux-redux.html#fnref:3">↩</a></p>
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