Over the last couple of years, I’ve been fleshing out my consultancy, and trying to figure out where the ‘personal’ and ‘professional’ buckets of my life belong online. Some of has been on this site. Some of it has been on informatic.ai. I chose Squarespace as a platform to launch both from and I’m now finding it just doesn’t suit my needs any longer.
Squarespace is an amazing no-code platform, and it’s crazy easy to get some pages up and running, in a consistent design language in little-to-no time. But as I’ve been going down the AI and automation path, I’ve become increasingly frustrated with not being able to truly hook into anything in the Squarespace backend for simple blogging.
I like to write locally, whether it’s in Obsidian or Ulysses, edit, review and then post to the web. I can’t do that with Squarespace. I can’t leverage make.com, Zapier, n8n or any other automation tool to help do that. I have to log into their platform and post. There are automations to support ecommerce, and I think that speaks volumes.
Blogging is something I started doing in various forms and formats ever since I first got onto the www back in the 90’s (yes kids, ask me about screeching dial-up sounds) and I’m not alone in seeing it as something foundation to what the web is for many people. And I think it might be making a comeback. I’m happy to (re) join the ranks of bloggers who are bringing their authentic voices back to the web, RSS and more.
So this site’s going to be a work in progress as I’m also moving my consultancy site off the platform, but also blogging more about my day-to-day activities. Stay tuned!