Simon Carstensen

My year of rebuilding Jottit is wrapping up, and I’m looking for what’s next.

Jottit pages now have plain text and raw markdown versions.

Here’s a nice screenshot of the new Jottit sidebar.

Spent the day redesigning Jottit.

A week ago I added an MCP server to Jottit as an experiment so I could post from Claude, not just the web UI.

I’m experimenting with the MCP protocol for Jottit and have the basics of it working.

Customization easily becomes complexity.

Redesigned the blogroll on Tinypost today.

I just redesigned the Tinypost signup process and this is how a newly created blog on Tinypost now looks like.

I made another attempt at getting some attention on Hacker News yesterday, but fell flat again. 5 points and 2 comments.

I redesigned Jottit’s URLs.

Posted Jottit to Hacker News today.

Here’s what my own Jottit site looks like when signed in as editor sbc.jottit.org

I had a small revelation about Jottit.

I wrote about loss, the old web, and why I rebuilt Jottit. simonbc.com/rebuildin…

I’m a few days away from launching Jottit.org, a revival of the minimalist wiki tool Aaron Swartz and I built in 2007.

I’m a few days away from launching Jottit.org, a revival of the minimalist wiki tool Aaron Swartz and I built in 2007.

Aaron Swartz and I built Jottit in 2007 as the simplest way to make a web page.

Aaron Swartz and I built Jottit in 2007 as the simplest way to make a web page.

Currently alternating between painting walls and shipping code.

Dave Winer’s blogroll on scripting.com works differently from the traditional model.

New post: How blogrolls work in Jottit simonbc.com/how-blogr…

New on Jottit: blogrolls.

Jottit sites now have a blogroll sidebar showing each site’s latest post and how long ago it was published.

Had to fix a few bugs, but I’m now posting to my Jottit site from the terminal using mpcli.