Simon Carstensen

Last year I quit my job to rebuild something from my past.

I posted the other day about basepage, the local-first tool I'm building that lets you point an agent at a folder of files and have it build and publish a site.

For most of my career, the constraint was building.

In 2007, Aaron Swartz and I built a small tool called Jottit.

I just shipped comments for Tinypost.

I've been quiet for a bit (moving house, painting walls) but I also made a big decision about Jottit.

Blogrolls used to be everywhere.

When I started building the original Jottit back in 2007, I was a CS student with no kids and no mortgage to worry about.

Today I'm beginning work on IndieAuth endpoints for Jottit.

The core idea of the original Jottit that we built in 2007 was frictionless publishing.

Here's how Jottit originally got started.