Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?

Cool idea!

http://www.andreykurenkov.com/writing/

Nowdays I largely write high-effort polished stuff about AI or life, with the occasional small fun thing thrown in.

Not sure if it counts, but I also run https://www.skynettoday.com/ which is a blog where many actual human beings with appropriate education/experience write polished articles to combat AI misinformation/hype in the media and more broadly get across what's going on with AI in an accessible way (yes I know the name is a bit ironic, we like it anyway as a bit of a joke).

I built that for myself, called giki.wiki. My personal annotation giki blog is at giki.wiki/@nubela . I've since used it as a company wiki too.

Seconding Feedly with RSS. Most blog software still supports RSS, even if they don't advertise it. You can View Source and search for "rss" and very often a feed will pop up.

And thanks for reminding me, I should sign up for Feedly Pro or whatever. Pay for things you like (RIP, Google Reader) :)

I have to say I'm surprised how many people blog about what I would consider to be "work stuff" on their personal blogs. For me, I keep a strong separation between work and personal life. So my personal blog is about my personal hobbies: woodworking, gardening, cooking, that kind of thing. https://www.smokingonabike.com/

I checked out your first link (on an iPhone) and all I saw was a mailing list signup form taking up the whole screen.

I always wanted to ask people who do things like this on their websites:

Why?

Why if I’ve never even seen your site, do you think that the first thing I want to do is divulge my email address to you and receive spam?

I don’t know even one thing about your site yet. Haven’t read word #1 from headline #1 of article #1 yet, but you seem to think my real goal is to get email from you.

I mean, do you get actual people who do that? Not bots that submit random emails to random fields, but real people who sign up for mailing lists without having read a single article?

At least it’s not a dialog that renders on a delay after I’ve been reading something for 5 seconds, I guess. You’re honest enough to show me the signup link right off the bat so I know to close the tab, so thanks for that.

(Sorry if I seem overly angry about this... I actually kinda am, because I remember a time when this wasn’t nearly ubiquitous on every damned weblog. My policy is to always close the tab when I get an email signup form, and so far I’m sticking to that.)