Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it? • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by daniels11 » Tue, Apr 07, 2020, 2:14 PM UTC

https://readbroca.com/

I write about language learning (specifically Chinese). I've written some stuff about learning with Anki.

Had to put it on pause for a little bit but plan to pick it up again soon.

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

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Post by squeakynick » Tue, Apr 07, 2020, 2:15 PM UTC

I write about math, coding, and general geekery in a style similar to Martin Gardner. http://www.datagenetics.com/blog.html

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

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Post by yoran » Tue, Apr 07, 2020, 2:15 PM UTC

https://www.yoranbrondsema.com/

I write about passive investing for Europeans, with some content written for Belgians specifically.

Most content around passive investing (i.e. investing in index funds) is targeted to a US audience and there's a clear lack of good information for European investors. I try to help remedy that with my blog.

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

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Post by arpitbbhayani » Tue, Apr 07, 2020, 2:15 PM UTC

https://arpitbhayani.me/blogs

I blog about language internals, math in computer science and system design. This year I started a weekly newsletter around it and hence you can await a post every Sunday.

You should read the blog to - get a deeper understanding of languages - get understand how to design scalable distributed systems - understand some really cool algorithms

I have started a weekly newsletter around this https://arpit.substack.com

Some of my most popular articles

- https://arpitbhayani.me/blogs/better-programmer - https://arpitbhayani.me/blogs/sliding-window-ratelimiter - https://arpitbhayani.me/blogs/function-overloading

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

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Post by nogabebop23 » Tue, Apr 07, 2020, 2:15 PM UTC

tkainrad wrote: post #83

Great thread! I sometimes wish there was a variant of Hacker News that only had blog posts written by individuals. Mine is https://tkainrad.dev I think you should read my blog because I invest a lot of effort into my posts. Not sure why I do that, as there is no reward except growing Google Analytics numbers. My three most successful articles have been - Managing my personal knowledge base: https://tkainrad.dev/posts…

>> I sometimes wish there was a variant of Hacker News that only had blog posts written by individuals

I may be older than most on HN, but when I think back to the internet of the late 90's if you squint a bit and remove all the brochure websites, the internet was essentially exactly this!

After all what is a geocities page but a blog that replaces longform content with animated "under construction" gifs?

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

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Post by pmuens » Tue, Apr 07, 2020, 2:15 PM UTC

https://philippmuens.com

My goal is to demystify modern Machine Learning algorithms via "from scratch" implementations and explanations focused on the intuitions behind core ideas.

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

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Post by newfie_bullet » Tue, Apr 07, 2020, 2:16 PM UTC

PStamatiou wrote: post #351

https://paulstamatiou.com/ Been running this site for about 15 years now and while I don't post often it's usually long-form detailed articles on a broad range of hardware/software/tech/design topics that take me a few months of spare time: Getting started with security keys (15k words) https://paulstamatiou.com/getting-started-with-security-keys... Building a Lightroom PC (30k words) https://paulstamatiou.com/buildi…

Wow, great site. Really nicely laid out content and images. Being a photographer I'm going to give that Lightroom PC article a read (6 year old i7 isn't holding up that well)

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

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Post by swyx » Tue, Apr 07, 2020, 2:17 PM UTC

I'm at https://www.swyx.io/writing/

I write about Frontend dev (React/Svelte/Tailwind/etc) and Node/Serverless, but my best pieces are junior/intermediate dev career advice stuff and that has frontpaged HN a few times

- https://www.swyx.io/writing/learn-in-public

- https://www.swyx.io/writing/svelte-static

- https://www.swyx.io/writing/coronavirus-recession/

- https://www.swyx.io/writing/writing-mise-en-place/

- https://www.swyx.io/writing/markdown-mistakes/

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

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Post by mgreenleaf » Tue, Apr 07, 2020, 2:18 PM UTC

snazz wrote: post #345

mgreenleaf wrote: post #231

https://arcane.blog/ I'm really just getting started, but I read widely and have a lot of random interests. Most of my stuff touches on tech but focuses on thoughts about mathematics, life, literature, philosophy, and ethics. I'm starting a company, and the blog for that is https://blog.yakware.com/ ; it is less human being-esque, but I want it to focus more on the tech and entrepreneur space, without being robotic m…

Your website gives me a TLS error (Firefox 75.0, Linux): > Secure Connection Failed > An error occurred during a connection to arcane.blog. Peer’s certificate has an invalid signature. > Error code: SEC_ERROR_BAD_SIGNATURE > The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified. > Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem. Edit: Work…

Aah, sorry about that; I renewed the cert and restarted the webserver, glad it is working now :)

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

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Post by uxisnotui » Tue, Apr 07, 2020, 2:20 PM UTC

https://hippiecritical.org/

I write about new age trends like ecstatic dance, psychedelics and more. I do my best to give a balanced view - talking about the origins and potential applications - and not just calling everything BS.

If you're a curious skeptic, you'd like my newsletter:

https://hippiecritical.org/newsletter/

Thanks for starting this thread jppope!