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

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Post by quickthrower2 »

shadowsun7 wrote: post #32

https://commoncog.com/blog/ I write mostly about career moats. I wrote a post about the Metagame that was on HN's front page a few weeks ago. But the context in which that post exists is actually in the context of smart thinking in one's career. My hard rule with the blog is that I should (as much as possible) write only about things I can verify through practice. None of that 'it sounds insightful because it is nove…

I love your blog. Since that metagame post I’ve had you in my reader and get excited when a new post appears. I just read some of your cashflow post and that is interesting, actually I’d like to comment on it so adding comments would be nice or at least have a HN thread for each post.

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

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Post by Rainymood »

You can find me at https://www.janmeppe.com/

I wrote one blog post about regex for noobs which hit the HN frontpage: https://www.janmeppe.com/blog/regex-for-noobs/

My latest post is on a leetcode problem: https://www.janmeppe.com/blog/Leetcode-378/

I write mainly for my own learning... In all honesty I write a lot, but publish very little. I fear what others think of my writing, I know this is very much an irrational fear but I still feel it. I've been writing more and am trying to overcome this fear.

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

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Post by some_furry »

tkainrad wrote: post #149
some_furry wrote: post #142

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's dev.to, which is like Medium for tech writers.

For me, part of the excitement is to see personal blog sites. So anything like Medium, dev.to, InfoQ, DZone, etc. is not really what I was getting at. It would have to be a link aggregator like HN that either has an army of editors, a disciplined community that flags invalid posts, or a technical way to filter for personal blogs.

> It would have to be a link aggregator like HN that either has an army of editors, a disciplined community that flags invalid posts, or a technical way to filter for personal blogs.

Oh boy, do I have a blog post for you (and anyone who wants to build such a thing)!

(Sadly it's on Medium, but still...)

https://medium.com/@soatok/defeating-coordinated-inauthentic...

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

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Post by raghavtoshniwal »

tkainrad wrote: post #147
polote wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I sometimes wish there was a variant of Hacker News that only had blog posts written by individuals I agree I tried to do it here : http://luap.info:4000/links Basically I'm taking all the links published into HN and I'm filtering the domains which are news domains or appear too frequently, but that is still a lot of links, so I'm not calling it a success yet

That's cool! At some point, I myself thought about making a clone of HN that just filters out everything that is not a blog post. However, I couldn't come up with a solid filter criteria. I agree that your method is not quite there yet, still a lot of large domains (airbnb.com, spiegel.de, spectator.co,...), but you started and that is already more than I ever did ;) I would suggest including the HN metadata, such as…

That's an interesting problem. Aside from HN, I frequent TechMeme alot for the more news-y side of tech. They have a leaderboard section [1], that has all of the biggest tech publications ranked. That could be a good starting filter?

[1]:https://www.techmeme.com/lb

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

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Post by polote »

tkainrad wrote: post #147
polote wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I sometimes wish there was a variant of Hacker News that only had blog posts written by individuals I agree I tried to do it here : http://luap.info:4000/links Basically I'm taking all the links published into HN and I'm filtering the domains which are news domains or appear too frequently, but that is still a lot of links, so I'm not calling it a success yet

That's cool! At some point, I myself thought about making a clone of HN that just filters out everything that is not a blog post. However, I couldn't come up with a solid filter criteria. I agree that your method is not quite there yet, still a lot of large domains (airbnb.com, spiegel.de, spectator.co,...), but you started and that is already more than I ever did ;) I would suggest including the HN metadata, such as…

Thank you, the filtering is the issue, and as you I haven't found a way to filter all big sites.

The filters I'm using are :

- the same user who post too often

- domain too frequent

- a list of blacklist words in the title

- a list of blacklisted domains

I already filter about 80% of links I would say (which is few enough to go through the list every day, about 200 posts)

About the HN meta data, I don't think it is a good idea to keep the upvotes, because this is exactly where the issue is, if you see a post with low upvotes people tend to not read it, doesn't mean it is not interesting, and for the comments same for not displaying the number, but you can still access the hn comment page by clicking on 'hn link'

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

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY »

https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/

https://medium.com/chrismarshallny (Features a selection of the above).

I write about developing software, as a craft, and writing Swift, in particular.

I’m fairly good at it. I’ve been writing since I was a kid, and delivering software for more than 35 years.

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

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Post by tomcooks »

I publish posts about my adventures (walking across Spain and Portugal, cycling between Lisbon and Istanbul, etc.), local peasant food recipes and projects at tomcooks.com

Due to the offline nature of my endeavours, the posts are usually pretty lowtech-highlife.

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