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

#171
I don't claim to be awesome but I use my platform to _show off_ my learning journey of different technologies. Luckily, the blog also became the reason of earning as well.

I mostly write about Python but not limited to it. It especially targets programmers.

Visit http://blog.adanansiddiqi.me/?ref=HN

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

#172
I've made the move from working as an individual contributor to managing/leading in a couple of different careers, most recently software engineering. In doing that, most of what I've learned has been from observing others and I write about these observations and how to be a better leader here: https://andrewwerner.blog/

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

#173
I make Dev Tips: https://umaar.com/dev-tips/ a place to share little tips primarily with DevTools. Currently at 200+ tips.

Few other random things I've written:

* The Benefits of Speaking at Tech Conferences: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-benefits-of-speaking-a...

* Data Visualisation with 1 Billion Shazam Music Recognitions: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/data-visualisation-with-1-...

* Open Source: Learning new code techniques and concepts: https://umaar.com/dev-tips/200-learning-from-open-source/

* Programmatically creating images with the CSS Paint API: https://www.sitepen.com/blog/programmatically-create-images-...

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

#175
I occasionally write about security, mostly about applied cryptography from non-math perspective.

If you are interested on day to day work in financial cryptography and hardware encryption modules, check:

https://www.malgregator.com/post/key-management/

Some predictions on future malware development (some of them confirmed by now):

https://www.malgregator.com/post/the-future-of-malware/the-f...

Or using modern smartcards like Yubikey with DevOps tools (Vault) by leveraging ancient technologies like pkcs11:

https://www.malgregator.com/post/vault-authentication-with-y...

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

#177

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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...

Thank you for the link! Definitely a good read for somebody who wanted to tackle this problem.

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

#178
My blog is here https://blog.steve.fi/ and you should read if you like free software, and real life.

I used to document projects, these days I talk about baking bread, open-source work, and the fun of raising a bilingual child.

It's a little random, it's not got a narrow focus. I suspect that means it is harder to be involved with, but the blogs I follow? They have real life, not just one theme. I like those best.

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

#179
Blog: https://blog.ovalerio.net

There isn't any special reason to read it, I just write about topics I find interesting (as expected but that can be almost anything), share news about my side-projects and occasionally post some Python/Django tips.

Adding it here just in case someone ends up finding something useful there.

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

#180
post #156

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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…

Alexa rankings might be helpful. Small websites have low rankings
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