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title: "Blogging as DRY"
date: 2022-11-20T11:30:33-08:00
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replyTitle: "Maintaining a blog is probably the best method I have found to honor DRY"
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replyAuthor: "Adrian Rosell"
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The "Don't Repeat Yourself" (<abbr>DRY</abbr>) principle is my main motivation for adding content to my site---especially to [my "notes" section]({{<relref "/notes">}}). I've gone as far as linking my own website in online class discussions (not as a citation; just for <abbr>DRY</abbr>).

This also combines really well with the [Publish on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere](https://indieweb.org/POSSE) (<abbr>POSSE</abbr>) principle. Often, a post of mine syndicates well to multiple destinations. I might reply to a forum on my site and syndicate it to both that forum and to the Fediverse. People reply in both places, and Webmentions aggregate them together on my site (though I often have to send myself those mentions). I only have to write something once.