In 2007, Aaron Swartz and I built a small tool called Jottit. The idea was simple: make it as easy as possible to put a page on the web. You typed something, clicked a button, and got a page on…

I just shipped comments for Tinypost. Here's how they work. If you're the blog owner and you're logged in, you just type and post. Your name shows up with an "author" badge next to it. If you're a reader, you…

I've been quiet for a bit (moving house, painting walls) but I also made a big decision about Jottit. When Aaron Swartz and I built Jottit in 2007, it was a very specific thing: the simplest way to make a…

Blogrolls used to be everywhere. In the early web, your sidebar had a list of blogs you read. A simple way to say "these people are worth your time." Then social media came along and sociality moved to the feed.…

When I started building the original Jottit back in 2007, I was a CS student with no kids and no mortgage to worry about. Almost 20 years later, with four children and a family to support, the question of funding…

Today I'm beginning work on IndieAuth endpoints for Jottit. The goal is to let people publish to their Jottit sites from any Micropub client, whether that's web apps, mobile apps, or desktop tools. IndieAuth is OAuth 2.0 for the open…

The core idea of the original Jottit that we built in 2007 was frictionless publishing. You could build your own site just by clicking a button. You didn't have to create an account and the UI was so simple you…

Here's how Jottit originally got started. In April 2007, Aaron Swartz sent me an email asking what I was up to. I told him I wasn't really up to any exciting projects and suggested that perhaps we build something together.…