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

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Post by rhlsthrm »

floppydiskette wrote: post #555

https://www.taniarascia.com I’ve been blogging about 5-6 years now on a regular basis - just all sorts of tutorials on web development, frameworks, cs, devops, whatever I’m learning at the time. I’ve also written for a bunch of publications like DigitalOcean and make a lot of open source side projects, so there’s plenty of quality content. But it’s pretty much all JavaScript/Typescript/Node.

Hey great looking blog! I'm the same stack as you pretty much and I've been thinking about blogging for a while about the same stuff! Any tips on getting started? Also seems like you've leveraged your blog into other opportunities, would love to hear tips on that as well.

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

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Post by gnicholas »

nzealand wrote: post #525

https://www.folj.com/ Lateral thinking and logic puzzles. Segmented by difficulty. If the answer is numerical, you can check to see if you are right before reading the solution.

FYI, the "more" button at the bottom of the page doesn't work. Cool puzzles!

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

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Post by obiefernandez »

https://medium.com/exploring-wisdom-unschooling-and-world-sc...

Given that we had to relocate to Mexico due to coronavirus, my wife and I recently made the difficult decision to officially pull our 12-year old son out of the international school he was attending in China and start him un/home-schooling him. I'm writing a blog about the decision and its results on a somewhat realtime and extremely open and honest basis. Might be useful for some of you thinking about doing the same with your own kids.

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

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Post by neilvictorgrey »

https://leahandneil.com/

It's a blog primarily about historical landmarks that we encountered on our travels in and around Europe over the last few years.

May be interesting to people who like to know every little detail about the history of places & events like Versailles, Culloden, Oktoberfest, etc.

My partner Leah has a few years worth of material still planned out and she spends about 4-8 hours a day writing. A new post is published every week or two.

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

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Post by ZainRiz »

https://zainrizvi.io

It's a bit sparse but I try to post the more interesting things I'm learning about tech, business, psychology, and self improvement.

About me: I'm a software engineer and I've spent over a decade working at Google and Microsoft, mostly building their clouds. Now I'm engineering at Stripe

Here are a few of my favorite posts:

* How to Setup a Free Custom Domain Email Address: https://zainrizvi.io/blog/how-to-setup-a-free-custom-domain-...

* So You Want to do Deep Work: https://zainrizvi.io/blog/so-you-want-to-deep-work/

* Be Creative by Asking Better Questions: https://zainrizvi.io/blog/a-more-beautiful-question-summary/

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

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Post by misev »

https://dimitarmisev.com/blog

Contains a couple of travelogues so far. Probably the best piece is on Iceland, it may be useful to you if you plan on camping there in winter: https://dimitarmisev.com/blog/iceland

It's rss-compliant in case you want to subscribe, and has no analytics tracking nonsense. Posting frequency has been extremely low so far, however. Even though the end result is usually rewarding, producing posts has been seriously time consuming. But I'm thinking every now and then to restart it.

Note: it doesn't show very well on screens wider than 1920 pixels, I just noticed.

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

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Post by floppydiskette »

rhlsthrm wrote: post #581
floppydiskette wrote: post #555

https://www.taniarascia.com I’ve been blogging about 5-6 years now on a regular basis - just all sorts of tutorials on web development, frameworks, cs, devops, whatever I’m learning at the time. I’ve also written for a bunch of publications like DigitalOcean and make a lot of open source side projects, so there’s plenty of quality content. But it’s pretty much all JavaScript/Typescript/Node.

Hey great looking blog! I'm the same stack as you pretty much and I've been thinking about blogging for a while about the same stuff! Any tips on getting started? Also seems like you've leveraged your blog into other opportunities, would love to hear tips on that as well.

Yeah, it has certainly made it pretty easy to find jobs and opportunities.

My biggest tip is to just always keep track of what you’re learning as you learn it. Learning Docker? Write down each command that successfully does what you want. Keep track of setbacks. By the time you learn it, you now have all the resources to make an extremely useful article for someone else.

Also, try to create something from start to finish - a working tutorial, and list all prerequisites. If you’re writing a tutorial, that is. That’s what I’m best at, I’m much worse at writing opinions.

Most of all, don’t be afraid to put anything out there.

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