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

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

#182
I write about topics I'm learning about here: https://timilearning.com/

It's largely focused on distributed systems and databases for now, but that's subject to change.

I have some deep dive posts like this: https://timilearning.com/posts/data-storage-on-disk/part-two... - where I write dig deeper into a particular topic, in this case: how databases work.

I also have posts like this one: https://timilearning.com/posts/ddia/part-two/chapter-9-2/, where I just share the notes I took while reading a book or watching a video. I've posted my notes from the first 9 chapters of 'Designing Data-Intensive Applications' by Martin Kleppmann there.

My goal is mainly to think more clearly about the things I learn by writing about them, and then share that knowledge with whoever finds the topics interesting.

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

#184
I have a personal blog that I posted a couple of times on HN thusfar. It's over at https://bram.dingelstad.xyz Usually I write about things I'm working on (if I can), planning to write more about a bunch of stuff, nothing too specific tho!

The awesomeness factor isn't really there yet I think, I'll see if I can fit that in there sometime :)

You should read it if you like occasional stories from a gamedev/sysadmin/entrepeneur I suppose?

I mostly write it for myself and try to cater it to atleast someone that would find it interesting.

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

#185
I just started my blog. Fresh out of university. I document my journey starting out as a dev and I cover what helped me get through my journey.

I love my job as a software dev so far and I'm learning so much. But I'm always open to advice. https://kimpremlall.wixsite.com/softwaredevblog

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

#187
My blog is my comments here on HN as responses to economically active workers reporting or gossiping - I do not comment often because constant activity becomes encumbered with redundancy (in the form of responses without new experience - I tend to exercise responses with random workers IRL by word-of-mouth in different industries while performing physical labor before making them permanent text on HN).

I've left 2 comments tonight so I am bending the rules a bit (whiskey + quarantine keeping me out of Tesla production).

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

#189

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.

I’d be careful about wholesale dismissal of Medium. It has many, many personal blogs; some, rather badly-written. The platform may be slick and polished, but the content is a different matter.

Some of the best tips and techniques that I’ve learned, have come from "scruffy" Medium posts.

My own presentation tends to be highly-polished, but that’s because I’ve been writing all my life (never professionally). Not many folks read my writing, but it’s something in which I take some pride, so it comes across in a fairly slick manner.

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

#190
I don't have a blog but this is a great idea and I would love if it was a a regular thread. I would also love any tips on how people are currently going about the task of wrangling a list of favorite blogs into a feed. Does everyone still have an RSS? How do I find the url for it?
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