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Re: Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?

#321
https://jmmv.dev/

You probably have seen this in the front page sometime last week due to the "Fast machines, slow machines" post :)

I started this blog during exams session back in university and I'll reach the 20-year mark next year. Wow. I write about my own projects, but also tech in general based on my current interests, which at the moment are around Rust, Bazel (again), and Unix systems in general.

It's interesting how the blog has changed: I used to write short posts almost daily describing whatever I had been tinkering with in open source projects (back when I contributed to NetBSD and Gnome regularly)... or whatever crossed my mind really. These days, most of those misc posts go into social media, and the blog is reserved for purposeful articles, which end up being much longer (and thus infrequent).

Commenting on the blog used to be much more common years ago, but these days discussion happen off-site in either social media or here. Similarly, people used to visit the blog periodically, but these days nobody does: traffic to the blog is either from organic searches or from spikes due to referrals from sites like HN.

As for how I build it: the posts are written in Markdown; I use Hugo to generate the site; Bootstrap for styling; and my custom web service (EndTRACKER) to offer email subscriptions, post voting and commenting, as well as privacy-respecting analytics.

Re: Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?

#322
I maintain two, with pretty different content. Both are intended to explore deep topics (AI and climate change, respectively), aiming for a middle ground between academic papers (meaty, but often hard to understand + contextualize if you're not already an expert) and popular press (often over-simplified or off the mark).

https://amistrongeryet.substack.com/ – was intended to be a general "things I've learned after coding for 40+ years", but so far just chronicles my attempt to wrap my head around the actual capabilities of current AI models and the potential trajectory and impact on society.

https://climateer.substack.com/ – my attempt to explain some of the big / controversial topics in climate change mitigation.

Re: Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?

#324
https://fasterthanli.me/

Infamous for discussions of Go.. (vs Rust..) but mostly it's me getting excited about learning & teaching computery stuff like:

ICMP in Making our own ping: https://fasterthanli.me/series/making-our-own-ping ELF in Making our own executable packer: https://fasterthanli.me/series/making-our-own-executable-pac... HTTP 1&2: https://fasterthanli.me/articles/the-http-crash-course-nobod...

Anyway yeah! Some folks hate it some folks love it, we need stuff for everyone.

Re: Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?

#327
https://boerman.dev/

Started couple years ago to practise my writing and analysis skills. I mainly write about energy transition stuff, intersecting with my work at TenneT. I like to analyze stuff as a hobby without the work pressure. In the past I have used blog posts internally at TenneT as well if something came up that was similar to a post haha. Traffic is mainly driven by summarizing and linking to a post on linkedin.

Its completely written in markdown and generated with hugo and open source here: https://github.com/fboerman/blog

Re: Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?

#330
I really enjoy this thread, thanks for opening it!

On my end:

- Technical stuff: https://thedarkside.frantzmiccoli.com/ - Entrepreneurship & thoughts on society: https://outofthecomfortzone.frantzmiccoli.com/

I am afraid that my non native english make the content less pleasant to read ;-)

I have been blogging since a long time, including a blog with more than hundreds of articles that I am not sharing. It's strange when you realise that you basically could have written two or three non fiction books.

Of the shared content, the ones I think are the most interesting are:

- A post mortem analysis about a solo startup project https://outofthecomfortzone.frantzmiccoli.com/thoughts/2016/...

- The recent articles about generative on the second blog.

- A write up about a very cool data science project around smart watches https://thedarkside.frantzmiccoli.com/experimentations/2016/...

- Debugging randomness https://thedarkside.frantzmiccoli.com/tricks/2015/11/11/debu...

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