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In this age of ubiquitous social networking, I may look trendy with accounts on all the major apps, but deep down, I’m old-school: these days, I really only use Signal and Proton Mail. Let me take this chance to apologize to those who’ve messaged me on Facebook, Instagram, and other platforms but never got a response; but if you’re reading this, you probably know that the only way to reach me is to email kin@ckxpress.com . Though more and more people have email addresses, fewer and fewer actu...

Last week, I wrote about how I set up ckxpress.com with WordPress, which I’ve used for 20 years. Today, let’s talk about the opposite: the blogging platform like.community is shutting down, with operations ending on May 14, 2025. First, some background. LikeCoin’s first flagship product was the LikeCoin button, which could be embedded in blogs like WordPress and Medium. Readers could “like” articles, and authors would receive LikeCoin from the Creator Fund and from “Civic Liker”, essentially ...

On April 21, 2005, I registered ckxpress.com and set up my personal website. It has now been 20 years, during which I’ve published 1,250 articles totaling 1.18 million words. Although the domain still has seven years until expiration, I just paid for an additional three years of registration fees to hold ckxpress.com for another 10 years. If it weren’t for the limit set by ICANN, I might have registered it for another 100 years.Blogging ResumeIf I were applying for a job as a blogger, my resu...

Last week, I explained three advanced Signal techniques. By popular demand (well, a population of one), this time I’ll introduce another ten simple and easy-to-use secret tricks. Feel free to “self-test” and see how familiar you are with Signal, on a scale of 0-10.0. Disappearing messagesMessage self-destruction is a widely known feature of Signal. Users who don’t use it probably think the convenience of searching old messages is more important than privacy. To set a self-destruct timer for m...