Found this via a link from another piece I was reading and the click was worth it, and a stop at webvalley extended the value across more material, the open web still rewards clicking through citations when the underlying writers care about each other work and this site clearly belongs to that network.

A piece that left me thinking I had been undercaring about the topic, and a look at jonathangiles reinforced that mild concern, content that raises the appropriate weight of a subject without being preachy about it is doing important work and this site is providing that gentle elevation of attention for me consistently.

If quality blog writing is dying as people sometimes claim then this site is one piece of evidence that it has not died yet, and a look at stylestitchery extended that evidence, the broader cultural question about online writing has empirical answers in specific sites and this one is contributing to a more optimistic answer overall.

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Sets a higher bar than most of what shows up in search results for this topic, and a look at trendtally did not lower that bar at all, in fact it confirmed the impression, this is the kind of consistency that earns a place in regular rotation for serious readers instead of casual scrollers passing through.