I suspect that if you’re reading this post then it’s likely that you already have a website but if not, consider making 2026 the Year of the Personal Website. Or maybe your site or blog has been inactive for a bit, think about doing some more posts on there. Even a little thing on Neocities works. It’s just nice to have a home base on the internet that you don’t have to deal with social media mods or randos popping into every post, and if something goes wrong with your host, you just move it elsewhere.

I also just like following personal blogs on bear blog with my RSS feed reader. More people should consider getting back into RSS, where it’s much easier to see posts on your favorite websites instead of expecting it to pass in your feed on social media and frequently missing stuff because you weren’t refreshing Instagram/Bluesky/Mastodon/whatever at the right time. I suspect mailing lists are probably also very valuable to game devs trying to promote stuff but I can’t really vouch for that one.

I think it’s also just fun to see what old posts still get traffic. My most popular posts on here are very old ones about how to play the late 90s MMO Asheron’s Call today, ttrpgs based on video games, and the late 90s Microsoft puzzle game Pandora’s Box. It’s more useful and permanent than an unwieldy thread of posts on bluesky or mastodon too, where you would have to refresh it for anyone to even come across it again.

Anyway, that concludes my regular “Make a website” post. Obviously a lot of bias comes from being a little older and preferring how I probably misremember The Old Internet, but it’s also just nice to push back on the internet becoming smaller and I value communication through comments on posts and emails more than getting likes and retweets.