/Recent content on Michael's Trip LogHugoen-usThu, 14 May 2026 22:03:33 -0700/posts/building-my-blog/Thu, 14 May 2026 22:03:33 -0700/posts/building-my-blog/<h1 id="welcome-to-the-new-cowsgomwoo-blog">Welcome to the new cowsgomwoo blog</h1> <p>Last month, after chatting with my friend Rickey, I was convinced to host my own blog instead of using SubStack. While it was nice to have a all in one built in solution I had one issue which was gating access. Wanting to keep this blog semi private I set my substack to private which required my readers to make an account, send a subscription request and then have me approve them before they can begin reading. Usually when I drop my blog link to my friends I lose them at the make an account step so while I have my loyal friends and family reading I haven&rsquo;t quite gotten the reach on substack that was meant to replace Instagram. When I dropped my blog link to Rickey he said &ldquo;argh account creation what a pain&rdquo; and told me to try using the tools he used for his own blog.</p>