Last month marked six years since I went indie. To celebrate I dug up what I wrote shortly after I lost my job, which was the thing which kicked off this adventure in the first placehttps://blog.benedictfritz.com/the-day-i-lost-my-job …
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I'm also rebooting my newsletter and just sent the first e-mail. I wrote more about the post, writing, and indie life in general:https://buttondown.email/benedictfritz/archive/six-years-of-independence/ …
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Also, yeah, I'm no longer posting on Medium, for all the reasons a lot of other people have stopped posting on Medium too. When you're 6 years into something you start realizing you might be doing it for longer than you expected, so you might as well invest in your own platform
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Also if you know how to make Twitter cards not suck with jekyll hmu lmaooo
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Replying to @benedictfritz
whatcha running into? i have some very gross templates
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Replying to @justinmduke
The Twitter validator seems like it caches some version of the card so then I have a hard time telling if my changes are actually taking effect
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Replying to @benedictfritz
dunno if this trick still works, but you used to be able to append random query params to the end of the URL to bust the cache
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Turns out my main problem was being in a rush and not just reading the docs 
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