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I'm bummed that The Old New Thing is now on Microsoft's domain. Old blogs seems to be dying out or being moved behind the walls of Medium/Substack/etc.
by AlexandrB 5y ago
I'm bummed that The Old New Thing is now on Microsoft's domain. Old blogs seems to be dying out or being moved behind the walls of Medium/Substack/etc.
- jcranmer 5y ago> I'm bummed that The Old New Thing is now on Microsoft's domain. Um, it's always been on MS's domain. It has moved from e.g. msdn.com (I think) to microsoft.com, but that's more about MS periodically moving around where its documentation is hosted because shrug, but it was always in same way officially hosted by MS.
- mschaef 5y agoIt's always been on one Microsoft domain or another, for almost as long as there've been blogs at all. It's almost 20 years ago now, but when Blogs started their initial ascendency as a useful format, Microsoft had a a number of developers start writing publicly facing personal blogs. Raymond Chen was one of that group, also including Michael Kaplan, Eric Lippert and Larry Osterman, among others. As far as I know, The Old New Thing is the only blog from that wave that's still being written - and it's been written every weekday for essentially that entire time. To give an idea of the scope of the work, he did a compilation of posts in book form sixteen years ago, and it was over 500 pages long. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004YWCL5W/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004YWCL5W/ref=dbs_a_def_r... I don't read it daily anymore (hasn't been relevant to my work or professional interests for ten years or more), but I do read it occasionally and continue to be both impressed and grateful for the effort he's put into the blog.