So while I was searching completely different, I realised that out there on the internet was an archive of all of my posts for Broken Kode. No this isn’t the wayback machine. It was actually my implementation using Scriptogr.am, which I’d completely forgotten existed. Sadly it seems that the people behind this service seem to have abandoned the project. The support site/forum are no longer there. The Twitter account has not been updated in a long time, and the Founder of the project appears to have moved to Pinterest.

Several things did grab me:

• Due to the nature (and beauty) of the system, the services' demise does not affect my content. I still have every single one of my posts (as text files) in a single folder.
• Search as much as you want to get your Tumblr backed up will yield very limited results. There are two (the tumblr backup and Frostbox). Both options don’t give you text files, they either give you a single HTML file or a single pdf. There is this Mac app that will allow you to download all your photos. So if Tumblr was to go away the situation would be a lot worse.

The reason for thinking about a backup was that I felt that the rare moments where I wrote personal posts where the posts that stood out the most for me are the ones that I want to capture and keep. Some of the highlights of the past 10 years that captured massive transitions in my life.

And that is the reason for writing something longform and personal. Social media doesn’t really allow you to do this. Social media is fast food. Disposable. Quick. Makes you fat.