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 # Restarting A Blog
 
 Author: David Beazley ([@dabeaz](https://www.dabeaz.com))

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 # Why TODO might be better than an Abstract Base Class
 
 Author: David Beazley ([@dabeaz](https://www.dabeaz.com)),

2021/why-use-emacs.md

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 # Why I use emacs (and can I stop?)
 
 Author: David Beazley ([@dabeaz](https://www.dabeaz.com))

README.md

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-# Blog
+# David Beazley's Blog
 
-This is [Dave Beazley's](https://dabeaz.com) blog.
+Hi, I'm [Dave](https://dabeaz.com).  This is my blog about various programming related topics.   You may know me from the Python world as the author of the [Python Cookbook](https://dabeaz.com/cookbook.html), [Python Essential Reference](https://dabeaz.com/per.html), and newly released [Python Distilled](https://dabeaz.com/python-distilled/index.html).  You can learn a lot about Python from my tutorials, talks, and courses below:
 
-After a multi-year hiatus from blogging, this is a bit of an experiment in hosting a blog solely in the form of a GitHub repo. If you see a typo or want to make a comment on something, submit a pull request.  You might even be able to do it from GitHub itself (press '.' to bring up an editor while viewing the repository).   You can view a nicely rendered version of the blog at [https://dabeaz.github.io/blog](https://dabeaz.github.io/blog).  
+* [Tutorials](https://dabeaz.com/tutorials.html)
+* [Talks](https://dabeaz.com/talks.html)
+* [Practical Python Course](https://dabeaz-course.github.io/practical-python)
 
-# 2021
+After a multi-year hiatus from blogging, this is a bit of an experiment in hosting a blog solely in the form of a GitHub repo.  
+
+## Notifications
+
+New posts will be made via a "release".  You can be notification as follows:
+
+* [Follow @dabeaz on Twitter](https://twitter.com/dabeaz)
+* [Subscribe to the repo's release RSS feed](https://github.com/dabeaz/blog/releases.atom)
+* Watch the repo's releases (click Watch -> Custom -> Releases -> Apply)
+
+Posts are listed below in reverse chronological order. 
+
+## 2021
 
 * [Why TODO might be better than an Abstract Base Class](2021/todo-abc.md) (August 31, 2021)
 * [Why I Use Emacs (and can I stop?)](2021/why-use-emacs.md) (August 29, 2021)
 * [Restarting a blog](2021/restarting-a-blog.md) (August 29, 2021)
+
+## Feedback
+If you see a typo or want to make a comment on something, submit a pull request.  You might even be able to do it from GitHub itself (press '.' to bring up an editor while viewing the repository).