# Welcome back

Source: https://jonleverrier.com/notes/welcome-back
Published: 2020-04-15
Topics: Thoughts

What better way to break my 10 year silence than to mark a special milestone.

### Behind the scenes

Today I launched version 3 of [jonleverrier.com](https://jonleverrier.com/).

If the last post in my blog is anything to go by, this is my first blog post in just under a decade.

Truth be told, this is not actually my first post in 10 years. I was actively [blogging on Tumblr](https://www.cssmayo.com/jon-leverrier/) when it was up and coming. Now it's the go-to place for indy porn. I had also been posting links of interest, shortened with my own URL shorter service via Twitter - [how fancy](https://twitter.com/jonleverrier/status/352199946008657920).

### Time for a digital clean out

I un-subscribed from those online services that had gone un-questioned. I deleted domain names that I had been renewing for way to long. I shutdown an old Media Temple hosting account that was full of experiments from the days when I was just starting out (hello [Textpattern](https://textpattern.com/)!).

In my haste to de-clutter, I deleted all the theme assets that powered my Tumblr blog and broke all the custom URL links on my Twitter time line. I really was "moving fast and breaking things".

### Taking back control

I've managed to salvage my blog posts from Tumblr from when I was [travelling](https://jonleverrier.com/notes/travel) around South East Asia. It feels good that [they now live here, on my own website](https://jonleverrier.com/notes/travel).

From this point forward, I’m going to make a conscious effort to own and produce my own content again, relying less on those third party services we love to hate.