Splitting My Blogs: Personal vs. Technical
I’ve been thinking a lot about how I share my writing online. Until now, my blog on blog,grish,me was doing double duty—it had both my technical articles and my personal writing. That mix worked okay, but it didn’t feel right. The site was meant to be part of my portfolio, and the personal stuff never really fit there.
So, I’ve decided to split things:
- Technical writing (guides, tutorials, deep dives) will stay on nory.tech/blog.
- Personal writing (movie reviews, anime thoughts, and guides that aren’t technical) will move to grish.me.
Basically, the “Guides” section is shifting too. On grish.me, guides will be more personal—things I’ve learned or want to share that aren’t tied to code or tech.
Right now, the blogging setup on my portfolio site doesn’t look perfect. It’s functional, but it doesn’t fully reflect what I want it to be. I’m okay with that for now. The important part was getting the structure right—separating my work identity from my personal identity. Once I have more time, I’ll refine the design and polish it up to feel better than it does today.
Traffic & SEO
Lately, the blog has been getting around 2,000+ visits per day (after filtering out firewall and cloud traffic). That’s still surprising to me—I never thought my posts would rank this well in SEO, but somehow they do.
Changing domains might impact that. Maybe the rankings drop. Maybe fewer people find me. And honestly, that’s fine. I’d rather have a setup that feels right, even if it means fewer clicks in the short term.
Newsletter Updates
Big shoutout to the 1,000+ people who signed up for my newsletter. That blew my mind. Never thought so many of you would care enough to hit subscribe.
But here’s the annoying part: the newsletter is basically dead right now. If you try to sign up, you’ll get some confirmation, but nothing goes out. The provider I was using capped me out way too 1,000 subs) and then wanted $50/month. Which at scale is like Yeah, no thanks. Not worth it.
So now I’m figuring out what’s next. I could switch providers, or honestly, I might just build my own system. I already run my own email server, so why not? But I don’t know yet—I’ll figure it out when I have the energy.
Wrapping Up
`So yeah—that’s where things stand:
- Technical writing → nory.tech/blog
- Personal writing → grish.me
- Newsletter → paused for now, coming back soon in a better way
Thanks for sticking around, for reading, and for signing up. Seriously, it means a lot. I know some of this shift might hurt SEO rankings or reduce visits a bit, but honestly, as long as I get my stuff together, it’s fine.
Next update: I plan to add a comment section—like on my technical blog, but for this personal space. I don’t know exactly when, because it needs an email server to handle notifications and authentication. I already have some code from my previous startup that could work. It’s a Go API that accesses all my email data, and it scaled pretty well back then. So yeah, it’s possible, but I need to figure out how to plug it in here.