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I was sent this thought-provoking blog post called “The Necessary Pain Involved in Blogging (if you want your work to be preserved beyond your lifespan) (https://eve.gd/2026/04/19/the-necessary-pain-involved-in-blogging-if-you-want-your-work-to-be-preserved-beyond-your-lifespan/)”.

In it, Martin Paul Eve makes the case that trying to preserve a blog is difficult. I mostly agree with him (although think he’s perhaps a little hair-shirted about it) and it made me think about what I do in terms of preservation.

This feed is captured by the Internet Archive (https://web.archive.org/web/20260000000000*/https://shkspr.mobi/blog/feed/atom/). That’s been useful on the rare occasions where my posts have been corrupted and I don’t have a backup.

I got my blog an ISSN (https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/09/how-to-add-issn-metadata-to-a-web-page/). I guess in theory this mean the British Library have a right to archive it? But I haven’t looked in to whether that is the case.

I don’t store my posts in a git repository. Perhaps I should?

I like the idea of WordPress’s 100 year domain name (https://wordpress.com/100-year/) but I’m not sure if I trust the current owner not to completely shit the bed. And it’s hard to justify £31k on a vanity project.

I’m not a scholar, so using something like Rogue Scholar (https://rogue-scholar.org/) feels inappropriate. My content also isn’t Creative Commons licenced (perhaps it should be?).

If you have a good solution for a long-term, stable, and relatively cheap method of preserving a blog (and its RSS feed) please drop me a comment via your favourite method (https://edent.tel/).