I tried to post this review on the site where I booked this hotel, Agoda, but the character limit on their form meant not even half of this would fit. So here’s what I meant to post in full.

If the hotel properly advertised there is no Internet service, then it would have been a reasonable place to stay (though I would not have stayed, as I needed to do some work from the hotel during this rainy week).

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While I was traveling in Taiwan in March 2020 as the world was descending into Covid-19 chaos, I had some time to ponder improvements to my blogging and notetaking processes. At the time, my website was happily powered by the mostly static generator Movable Type, and my notetaking was strewn across text files, Google Docs and physical paper. I wanted to try to merge them as much as possible, so it seemed to make sense to do both in the same place: text files on my computer. I resisted moving away from MT for a long time, because I love its super intuitive templating system and ease of logging in and blogging from anywhere. MT has served me well for almost 20 years (wow!), and if this site had to support more than one author, I wouldn’t want to change.

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