# Backfill your blog

<https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/25/backfill-your-blog/>

- Host: [simonwillison.net](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/simonwillison.net/)
- Saved: May 1, 2025 (2025-05-01T12:09:03Z)
- Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/d0074f537816/
- JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/d0074f537816.json

## What Jamie wrote

Moving your writing from one service to another can be a little challenging, and might require writing some small scripts, but it allows you to keep your content together. Instead of "starting a new blog", migrate it! I've done this I think five times. I also imported thousands of my Tweets into my blog after left Twitter (well before X) which was a little harder because probably half of that stuff didn’t make sense as a post. I fixed that over the course of regular [blog gardening](https://www.thingelstad.com/2023/09/04/blog-gardening.html).

There is another "backfill" too which is the [blog pensieve](https://www.thingelstad.com/2024/07/14/blog-pensieve.html) — create whole new posts in the past. If you have a photo from the past, with a reliable timestamp, why not create a post as if it happened on that day?

## Facts

- Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/)

## Appears in

- [WT317: Weekly Thing 317 / Assembly, Blogging, Cyberpunk](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/317/), Notable

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- [Large Language Models can run tools in your terminal with LLM 0.26](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/17c8a3bb1985/) (simonwillison.net, May 29, 2025)

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## Elsewhere

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