Introduction: Jace

What is this and who is "Jace?"

With 2025 starting up, I’ve decided it’s time to return to the world of online writing. At first I was exploring alternative options, such as Instagram or creating another newsletter. However, there are major downsides to both. Instagram is primarily a visual medium and text posts on there are limited to 2,200 characters, which is just around 400 words. That’s enough for some things but not nearly enough for longer pieces—which sometimes I’d like to do. So Instagram was out.

Newsletters are fun and I even now have a separate email address specificially for subscribing to them—an idea I strongly encourage you to try—but I like being able to just link to a post in my archives if needed Plus I'm sure nobody wants me to flood their inboxes. Also, there’s some debate on whether using the industry standard, Substack, is moral or not. Additionally, with Mailchimp's Tiny Letter service now discontinued, I just didn’t have the heart to start another newsletter. 💌

So instead, I just took the simplest route: a back to basics blog. All I was looking for was a place to post words that could be easily read on mobile--something my old site failed miserably at--and wouldn't be difficult to update. So once again, we Blogger. Sidenote: At the bookstore the other day, I saw the updated version of Blogging for Dummies...it was a wild 390+ pages!?

And of course, what’s up with "Jace Yang?" Well, it’s my heavily workshopped name that I came up with many years ago to replace Jon because there were just too many Jon Yangs floating around. I’m assuming you’re only reading this because you know me as a “Jon” and not a “Jace” but I needed something that started with “J,” was short and easy to spell, and was arguably unisex. (The entire list of possible names is a real hoot.) A decade ago I didn’t see many Jaces floating around but now they are seemingly everywhere. Still, the URL and all the necessary accounts were already set up under Jace Yang so here we are!

The inspiration for Jace was Jace Beleren, from yes, Magic the Gathering.

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