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,…

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A developer announces their migration from WordPress to Substack after a decade of blogging. The move is motivated by frustration with WordPress and the desire to join the more vibrant tech writing community on Substack. The author is working on the second edition of "Observability Engineering" and plans to share insights from that process. Email subscribers are being migrated, but comments cannot be transferred, and the original site will remain accessible to preserve existing links.

Moving from WordPress to Substack

WordPress brings Development back to the late 90s. There’s not much different going on there. I work for a WordPress dev company, we still use “WinSCP” as “Best Practice”.

Using tools like WordPress doesn’t automatically make someone a developer. Development involves writing code, solving technical problems, and understanding systems, not just assembling prebuilt components.

this is about blogging not dev, WTF

Funny I just did this today… looked at behiive and others too

We implemented multi-tenancy using pg’s row-level security. Although DB init setups get a bit more complex, it nicely moves that part to the DB and keeps the complexity out of the rest of development - for the most part.
Would definitely recommend.