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Ask HN: What are good solo developer blogs that you enjoy reading?
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Re: Ask HN: What are good solo developer blogs that you enjoy reading?
#112Steve Yegge's old rants are good. I can never tell for sure which parts are him trolling me.
Agreed, though I don't think he's trolling.
Here's the link to his classic "Drunken Blog Rants": https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/
Re: Ask HN: What are good solo developer blogs that you enjoy reading?
#113Solo developers are too busy with the business. I once started a series called "from 0 to 0.1: the journey from 0 to 1,000 customers. But I was too busy with other works like dev or marketing towards my target customers.
https://blog.seo-product-optimizer.com/index.php/2017/01/11/...
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#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's hardly a developer blog though. It's mostly commentary on Apple's business practices and products.
It's Apple-focused but it's definitely from the perspective of a developer. It's not generic macrumors-type reporting for the layman.
I'd argue it's from the perspective of the Apple marketing department. At least often.
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This sounds as fake as "marketing-speak". There's nothing wrong with asking "Please do " in the English language, it's plenty polite.
It's not marketing speak. It's getting off on the right foot by saying you like the person's work. Then it's asking more carefully if they've considered it before, in case they have and decided against or weren't able to. Then it's saying you'd appreciate it rather than you require it. Just saying 'please do X' sounds like an email I'd get from a German who doesn't know English very well. It's grammatically correct b…
I'm just curious what you would consider marketing-speak then. To my eyes, your phrasing seems to veer off into the other extreme towards seeming patronising and insincere. And it is pretty clear that you want essentially the same thing as the person who said "please do X".
Maybe "please consider adding TLS because ... " is a good compromise? Still not a foot-stomping demand but you're stating why it would be better for all involved while not treating the subject as a child.
Personally I would even leave off the "because ..." because I'm a non-native speaker and happy to be taken as a little abrasive.
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> Hi this is a great article! I don't know if you've ever considered adding TLS to your personal site? I know a lot of people like me really appreciate even small websites having this.
This sounds as fake as "marketing-speak". There's nothing wrong with asking "Please do " in the English language, it's plenty polite.
Saying "Could you kindly ..." is explicitly less demanding than "Please ...".
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It's not marketing speak. It's getting off on the right foot by saying you like the person's work. Then it's asking more carefully if they've considered it before, in case they have and decided against or weren't able to. Then it's saying you'd appreciate it rather than you require it. Just saying 'please do X' sounds like an email I'd get from a German who doesn't know English very well. It's grammatically correct b…
I'm Dutch speaker, we're known to be very direct, but I too believe adding "Please" in front of a request does not per se make it more polite. Another example that bothers me quite a lot is adding "Thanks" to a request without awaiting a reply. Writing "Can you please do xyz? Thanks" makes it come over as an instruction instead of a request, even though the author may have had the best intentions (express his gratitu…
We Brazilians use it. It’s because it is the way we talk in Portuguese.
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It's strange to see the downvotes. Why static websites need https [1]. Discussion just two weeks ago at [2]. If I make a polite suggestion with a reason behind my suggestion, I find it incredibly sad that it's a cause for downvotes here at HN. [1] https://www.troyhunt.com/heres-why-your-static-website-needs... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22146291
I downvoted both this post and the one above because it's completely off topic.
That's fair. Thank you for the explanation.
Re: Ask HN: What are good solo developer blogs that you enjoy reading?
#119if you are into obj-c/swift, there is a list of the most useful blogs here: https://apple-developer.org/resources/online-resources.html#...
Re: Ask HN: What are good solo developer blogs that you enjoy reading?
#120I follow regularly these people, these are mostly slow-going blogs or websites: 1. Fabrice Bellard: https://bellard.org/ This is not really a blog, but a traditional website with links to the work of its author (who is probably one of the top programmers ever). It updates rarely, but when it does, it is to expose yet another monumental piece of computing work that will blow your universe. 2. Linus Akesson: https://ww…
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