This space is quite the contrast to my latest return to my decade-long daily weblogging habit—started in 2000, ended in 2010. The latest being my posting and participation over at Craig Mod’s hi.co, a richly graphic, elegantly designed place, with awesome UI.

Here, it’s just words. A blank, white space, for now erratically being marked with these sans-serif letterforms, struggling for meaning. (I dislike being informed that stuff here generates ‘content,’ whatever that means.)

It’s writing, period. I didn’t detect the explicitly authorial demands that other web-writing spaces like Medium initially purveyed, as a come-on. Just a bit too much pressure there. Here, we shall see.

And if anyone at Svbtle central is reading this, perhaps trawling for feedback: I already like it. Keep it this way, and you will keep me. The writing interface brings me in mind of iA Writer (on my MacBook, and...