The Verification Badge: What It Means and How to Earn It
Discover how Jottings verification badges help you build credibility and trust with your audience—without the Twitter gatekeeping.
Custom Domains
Set up your own domain with SSL and DNS
Moving Your Domain from Another Platform
Step-by-step guide to migrating your custom domain to Jottings without losing traffic or SEO rankings. Learn DNS setup, redirects, and best practices.
Animated GIF Support: When to Use Motion
Why we support 15MB animated GIFs in Jottings, how they load fast, and when motion actually makes your writing better. A guide to GIFs that feel intentional, not lazy.
CDN Delivery: Why Your Images Load Fast
How Cloudflare R2 and edge caching deliver your images in milliseconds, no matter where your readers are in the world.
Presigned Uploads: Direct-to-CDN Performance
Why Jottings uses presigned URLs for direct-to-CDN uploads and how this architecture delivers blazing-fast media performance with zero server overhead.
Configuring SEO: Google and Bing Verification
Learn how to verify your Jottings microblog with Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools to unlock SEO insights and improve discovery.
Automatic SSL: How Cloudflare Secures Your Domain
Discover how Cloudflare SSL for SaaS automatically issues and renews SSL certificates for custom domains with zero configuration.
Step-by-Step: Adding a Custom Domain to Jottings
Complete walkthrough to connect your custom domain to Jottings. From buying a domain to automatic SSL setup—everything you need to know.
Custom Domains: Jottings vs Competitors
Why Jottings custom domains are faster and simpler than competitors. Compare Jottings' automatic SSL, instant validation, and included feature against other platforms.
Custom Domains: From Setup to SSL in Minutes
Step-by-step guide to connecting your custom domain to Jottings. Get SSL certificates automatically. Complete setup in 15-90 minutes.
DNS Propagation: Why Your Domain Takes Time to Activate
Learn why DNS changes take 5-60 minutes to propagate globally, how TTL caching works, and practical steps to verify your domain is live.
Troubleshooting DNS Propagation Issues
Learn how to troubleshoot DNS propagation issues when setting up custom domains on Jottings. Common problems, solutions, and tools to speed up verification.
Edge Caching: How Cloudflare Speeds Up Your Site
Learn how Jottings uses Cloudflare's edge network and static site generation to deliver your blog in under 100ms globally. No origin server hits. Pure speed.
One Domain Per Site: A Deliberate Constraint
Jottings limits each site to one custom domain. This isn't a bug. It's a feature. Here's why constraints make better products.
The Parking Page: What Happens to Your Old Subdomain
When you add a custom domain to your Jottings site, we don't delete your old subdomain. Instead, we park it gracefully with a redirect notice and canonical tags.
Your Subdomain, Your Identity: How jottings.me Works
When you create a site on Jottings, you own your identity at [subdomain].jottings.me. Here's how it works, why it matters, and what you need to know about choosing yours.
Why We Chose TXT Record Validation for Domains
Learn why Jottings uses TXT record validation to verify domain ownership for custom domains—security first, ease second.
TXT Record Validation: Domain Ownership Proof
Why Jottings uses TXT records to verify domain ownership before activating custom domains. A personal look at preventing domain hijacking.
Workers KV for Domain Routing
How Cloudflare Workers KV powers real-time domain routing at the edge, enabling custom domains on Jottings with zero latency penalties.
The Dead Letter Queue: How We Handle Build Failures
Discover how Jottings automatically recovers from build failures using Dead Letter Queues, retry logic, and error monitoring.
The 15-Second Debounce - Smart Build Triggering
How Jottings avoids wasteful rebuilds during rapid edits with intelligent debouncing. A behind-the-scenes look at efficiency in serverless architecture.
GitHub Actions: Automated Deployments
How Jottings uses GitHub Actions for CI/CD: push to deploy strategy, branching workflow, and why we skip pre-deployment checks.
10-Digit Jot IDs: A Design Decision Explained
Why numeric IDs make permalinks simpler, shorter, and more resilient than slugs or UUIDs. A design choice inherited from micromusings.
Our Monorepo Structure: Frontend + Backend + Workers
How Jottings organizes code as a monorepo with frontend, backend, and edge workers—why one repo beats multiple, and how to make it work.
Under the Hood: The Tech Stack Behind Jottings
Curious how Jottings is built? A deep dive into our serverless architecture using AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, and Cloudflare R2 to deliver blazing fast static sites.