Many of the pages on notes.aaronw.dev are unlinked.
This is helpful on many levels.
Did you reach this page via the home page and wonder where all the other content is? Probably not!
Are you disappointed there isn’t a reverse-chronological list of posts? Unlikely.
Why is this helpful?
I can focus on the things that are likely to be most useful to someone.
I think of notes, rather than a blog, as a key-value store of content.
If I find myself blogging consistently (which I’m not), or needing RSS, I have Ghost running on aaronw.dev. I am still torn between a hosted blog (like Ghost) and static sites (like GitHub Pages). For now, I’m forgoing my own static site generator (like Hugo), or even a theme!
It lowers the barrier to share a brief note (similar to til.simonwillison.net) in a specific context – perhaps that next thread on a social platform should be a mutable page on the internet?
I can consolidate and archive content easily (I got this idea from bradfitz.com).
I can spend more time writing than thinking about information architecture.
And more time writing means less time kvetching about about markdown, writing tools, and editing workflows. I can just edit something in place (using Visual Studio Code in the browser via github.dev).