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

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Post by mgreenleaf »

https://arcane.blog/

I'm really just getting started, but I read widely and have a lot of random interests. Most of my stuff touches on tech but focuses on thoughts about mathematics, life, literature, philosophy, and ethics.

I'm starting a company, and the blog for that is https://blog.yakware.com/ ; it is less human being-esque, but I want it to focus more on the tech and entrepreneur space, without being robotic marketing material...:

Planning on making both of those more regular in the near future, and both have RSS feeds.

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

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Post by pmichaud »

ninkendo wrote: post #220
umaar wrote: post #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: Learn…

I checked out your first link (on an iPhone) and all I saw was a mailing list signup form taking up the whole screen. I always wanted to ask people who do things like this on their websites: Why? Why if I’ve never even seen your site, do you think that the first thing I want to do is divulge my email address to you and receive spam? I don’t know even one thing about your site yet. Haven’t read word #1 from headline #…

The basic reason this is incredibly tempting to do is that it works. Not just a little, but it works radically better than the alternative or politely or subtly asking or providing the option tastefully at the bottom of the article or whatever.

I don' really have a good model of why, but empirically it does. And it's not what you'd think either: it's just be spam or bot or something. It's real people who actually do it, and do it a huge percentage of the time, and who collectively make a categorical difference to your viewership.

It's weird, honestly. I wish I understood better why it was such a strong effect.

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

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Post by bovermyer »

I have two, my main blog and Iron Arachne's blog, the latter of which is probably more interesting to HN.

My main blog is just a journal of sorts. There are a handful of interesting posts, which you can find here:

https://benovermyer.com/post/my-breakfast-a-recipe-and-a-rit...

https://benovermyer.com/post/star-wars-galaxies-crafting/

The Iron Arachne blog is about procedurally generating content for tabletop role-playing games. You can find it here:

https://blog.ironarachne.com

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

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Post by tomarr »

simplesleeper wrote: post #48

https://www.michalpaszkiewicz.co.uk/blog/ I have worked in transport for over 5 years in software and have read most of the technical books in the internal London Underground library. I generally have read >50 technical books a year. In my blog I collect and distill what I have learnt. I write about transport, software development and things I feel others should know.

Do you have many transport projects on the go currently?

One that I always thought would be interesting is looking at optimisation of the distribution of the Santander Cycle Hire bikes. These are redistributed to expected demand, but movements are costly in terms of people and vans. I spent a week with the team a few years ago and they had a fairly rudimentary modelling system that a university had put together, which involved mostly manual tweaking of routes. This would make for an interesting Kaggle or similar.

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

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Post by neya »

https://medium.com/build-ideas

I started writing about engineering, code, electronics, audio mostly. The idea of my blog is to help other people build their ideas (Hence the name). It started out as a blog to help newcomers to build popular ideas (such as E-Commerce or a simple), but has evolved into documenting some of my journeys with engineering in general. Such as this one:

https://medium.com/build-ideas/in-pursuit-of-a-lost-childhoo...

Although I'm on Medium, I'm looking to port it to my own custom blog soon.

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

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Post by ninkendo »

pmichaud wrote: post #232
ninkendo wrote: post #220

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I checked out your first link (on an iPhone) and all I saw was a mailing list signup form taking up the whole screen. I always wanted to ask people who do things like this on their websites: Why? Why if I’ve never even seen your site, do you think that the first thing I want to do is divulge my email address to you and receive spam? I don’t know even one thing about your site yet. Haven’t read word #1 from headline #…

The basic reason this is incredibly tempting to do is that it works. Not just a little, but it works radically better than the alternative or politely or subtly asking or providing the option tastefully at the bottom of the article or whatever. I don' really have a good model of why, but empirically it does. And it's not what you'd think either: it's just be spam or bot or something. It's real people who actually do…

Thanks for answering.

Follow-up questions if you don’t mind:

- How do you know it’s not just bots filling in email addresses?

- Do you get analytics showing how many people leave the page when they get the signup dialog?

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

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Post by mtsolitary »

http://mtsolitary.com

Mt Solitary is an indie weblog. Periodic updates to this site consist of the author’s thoughts on many subjects, including philosophy, meditation, mathematics, travel, photography, technology, politics, and the simple bliss of being alive.

Every so often, a new “issue” of Mt. Solitary is posted to the site, featuring a photograph, some thoughts on a topic or two that’ve been bouncing around my head, and short lists of things I’ve been reading, watching and listening to lately.

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

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Post by mgreenleaf »

bovermyer wrote: post #233

I have two, my main blog and Iron Arachne's blog, the latter of which is probably more interesting to HN. My main blog is just a journal of sorts. There are a handful of interesting posts, which you can find here: https://benovermyer.com/post/my-breakfast-a-recipe-and-a-rit... https://benovermyer.com/post/star-wars-galaxies-crafting/ The Iron Arachne blog is about procedurally generating content for tabletop role-pla…

I love procedural generation and that fantasy map generator is really neat.

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

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Post by janvdberg »

Mine is https://j11g.com/

I mainly do book reviews few times per month (some posts are bigger than others). And blog a little bit about music and a little bit about tech: https://j11g.com/category/tech/

The book reviews are mostly (public) notes to myself. The tech blogs are mostly aimed at a larger audience.

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