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I use a sort of intermediate approach for my personal site. It's just stored as html files in a git repo, and I do write the html by hand for pages that I want to put extra love in…

For me personally, the effort of 'polishing' a post makes it drastically more valuable to myself in the end: I think harder about the material; I notice problems with my thinking t…

I do this too—every post has a footer telling people they can email me with feedback, along with a mailto link. I maybe see one piece of spam every few months because of it. And on…

As a fellow fan of effective altruism, I really don't want people to think of it as the group that shows up whenever someone is asking for help and says "Don't help them! You shoul…

I have a blog, but I mostly assume people _don't_ care what I'm doing or thinking. Some of my posts have probably never been read by anybody. I still personally find it worthwhile …

At several points in my life I've been so discontent that I felt I had no choice but to try something that felt (at least to me at the time) drastic and risky. This has included: -…

> you can't treat depression by hanging out with other depressed people I disagree, a sense of shared suffering can be really helpful in building close and meaningful friendships. …

It sounds like you've been able to consistently land dev jobs, produce working software (it's not your responsibility to ensure the thing you've been asked to build is commercially…

Reminds me of the tale in this podcast [1] where the guy's desire to avoid a difficult conversation spiraled into totally ghosting his employer for two weeks. It's a really tough t…

I and many people I’ve met irl through book clubs etc use it; I find reading my friends’ reviews interesting and I’ve gotten good recommendations through it. If you’re just looking…

> no one actually interacts with people selling you things like this There's a whole successful social network (Goodreads) built on people's desire to talk about books, frequently …

I've used this service for a few years and really appreciate it. Mostly I use their app, which works perfectly fine, but it's nice to be able to download the DRM-free files so I kn…

Articulating your flaws isn't the same as fixing them. If you just tell people what your love language is, but don't learn to show love in their love language, they still won't fee…

I recently stopped using a static site generator for my personal site [1] in favor of just manually maintaining a bunch of HTML files, for similar reasons. The last straw for me wa…

Right. Aside from 'files' and 'bytes', the metrics are just the result of running shell commands specified in a config file. In this case it's `jq '.items | length' $PARCEL_PATH`, …

> Scrolling through thumbnails is better than nothing, sure. "Better than nothing" is pretty much what I'm going for here. Almost all my personal data stored in cloud services fall…

I keep multiple versions as well, and also use third-party backup software on all these files. These techniques are meant to be part of something analogous to a 'defense in depth' …

I replied to a similar point about hashing here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23032633 You're correct that the methods I described are a far cry from actually guaranteeing…

I'm mostly trying to address cases where there is no original file that I fully trust. If I'm exporting my data from some web app/service, I can't get a hash of the data as it is i…

Focus has been an issue for me too. I think it helps to view yourself as having a limited number of focus 'slots', but to view each focus as just a medium-term commitment (a few mo…