It’s time to announce the official closing of See With Eyes Closed, my first blog and longtime main website. A sad moment, but I feel it’s the right move to make.
why?
The simplest reason for See With Eyes Closed to leave is that it’s outlived its purpose. I don’t need it as a general-purpose blog; I have this one, now. I tried redefining it as a blog about media literacy, but quickly discovered the simplicity I had to put into it to make the topic appeal to a general audience was proving a difficult balance.
So, I didn’t need it. It didn’t ever really receive much attention from me either: while I originally planned to post weekly, it ended up receiving 33 posts over the three years it was active, just under one post per month on average. A good number of those posts were actually apologies for not posting more.
It was time for it to go.
what next?
I’ve put up a memorial site that I do intend to keep up for the foreseeable future. In practical terms, this is because many places I’ve left behind only link to See With Eyes Closed, since I didn’t have my current websites then. With the memorial site still up, people finding me through those links will still be able to find the things I currently do.
I’ve migrated all of the See With Eyes Closed posts here. To view them, go to the articles listing and scroll to the bottom. If you click on “View Archived Posts”, you’ll be able to open and read any article from See With Eyes Closed. I will also list them all at the bottom of this article. (Bear in mind that some of the links in the articles may no longer work. I’ve tried to correct them where I can.)
I may remove a couple of the lower-quality ones, but most will stay up.
I’ve also started branching out into more niche blogs; my first, tty1, has begun and focuses on the Linux terminal. I fully expect I will continue to create niche blogs, perhaps ones that don’t have the expectation that they’ll run indefinitely. tty1, at least, was created by me with the expectation that I won’t be writing for it forever, though it has broadened in scope since the original conception.
I also intend for Musings (this blog) to play a bigger role than it did in the past; previously, it was an intermittent blog, only being posted on if I had something I wanted to publish that didn’t fit in See With Eyes Closed’s Media Literacy theme. Now it’s my central and main blog, general-purpose and not entirely formal. I’ll likely announce projects here and post an occasional rant or well-wrought argument. We’ll see where it goes; I’m not going to tie it down to a particular style or topic at this point.
We’ll see where the future takes me.
in memoriam
“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
Goodbye, See With Eyes Closed.
posts migrated from see with eyes closed (in no particular order)
I’m Not a Robot
How to Draw a Really Bad Partybone
Quote Analysis: Laziness
Life Behind the Mask
Just Write!
Forensics Tournament and Assumptions
The Mayflower Compact: A Lesson in Fragility
The Power of Procrastination
The Bookwyrm Method
Quote Analysis: See With Eyes Closed
Necessary Murder?
When the Sun Sets
It’s Not Selfish to Ask for Help
Umify Available on the Chrome Web Store
The Tyranny of Grades
Stop and Listen to the Alarm Clock
Guns on this Morgue Ship
Why Read?
Butterfly Prophecies
Astrotheology: Religion Meets Space
Where Is Everybody?: Implications of the Fermi Paradox
New: Emoji Reactions
Stop Using Chrome. Seriously.
What is Trust?
Here’s Why Web Privacy Matters
Let’s Start This Over
My Technology Manifesto
How to Choose a Web Browser
reCAPTCHA is Dead
An Introduction to Passwords
Passwords and Biometric Authentication
The Learning Machine
Grade Comparing: The New Pillory?
