Worth flagging this post as worth a careful read rather than a casual skim, and a stop at marshplate earned the same careful approach, the few sites that warrant slower reading are sites I now treat differently from the daily content stream and this one has clearly moved into that elevated treatment category.

Considered as a whole this site has developed a coherent point of view that comes through in individual pieces, and a look at teraware continued displaying that coherence, sites with a unified perspective rather than a grab bag of takes are sites with editorial maturity and this one has clearly developed that maturity through years of work.

Different feel from the algorithmically optimised posts that dominate the topic, and a stop at clarityfocus reinforced that human touch, you can tell when a site is being run by someone who reads what they publish versus someone just hitting submit and moving on quickly to the next assignment without checking the result.

Speaking as someone who used to recommend blogs frequently and got out of the habit this site is rekindling that impulse, and a look at momentumactivation extended the rekindling, the recovery of an old habit triggered by encountering work that justifies it is itself a small kind of pleasure and this site is providing that recovery experience.