Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it? • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by Ace__ » Tue, Apr 07, 2020, 11:55 AM UTC

Hello Jppope.

I have only just start blogging. I wanted a detailed guide on various things to do with startups, marketing, sales, validation, etc, that covers in detail and takes into account context.

There are very few blogs that I like, most are SEO rubbish, but occasionally I come across something where I respect the time, insight and disposition to freely share knowledge. A place where I plant my flag as well.

So, only one proper article at the moment: https://startizer.com/guide-to-landing-pages-part-1-the-foun...

Cheers, Ace.

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

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Post by mr-karan » Tue, Apr 07, 2020, 11:55 AM UTC

sdan wrote: post #127

mr-karan wrote: post #22

https://mrkaran.dev/ This is my personal blog where I pen down my thoughts on Containers, DNS, bits of Devops etc. I've been a self learner since the time I started programming and I feel penning down thoughts and reaching to a wider audience makes me learn those concepts even better. If you enjoy understanding concepts using an ELI5 approach, consider checking out my blog :)

Anyway I can subscribe? Maybe a newsletter?

You can subscribe to RSS feed: https://mrkaran.dev/index.xml

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

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Post by indigochill » Tue, Apr 07, 2020, 11:57 AM UTC

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…

Because when someone is asked to do something, generally their first reaction is to do it because that's how they've been conditioned. Especially if they don't really understand that saying no is a totally valid response.

You see this exploited constantly by GDPR popups designed to default to giving the site everything and requiring the user to put an ounce of thought into opting out.

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

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Post by PMunch » Tue, Apr 07, 2020, 11:57 AM UTC

https://peterme.net - If you've heard about Nim and want to see what someone is doing with it. Along with various other projects and presentations I do.

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

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Post by progre » Tue, Apr 07, 2020, 12:02 PM UTC

Commenting so I can find this thread later but since you asked here is mine: http://prog.re/blog/ It mainly exists so that I can practice writing but I don't post very much (2 years between posts).

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

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Post by dgeex » Tue, Apr 07, 2020, 12:02 PM UTC

some_furry wrote: post #145

dgeex wrote: post #34

https://danielonsecurity.com/ - I am a penetration tester and write about security obviously. In order to encourage IPv6 usage, I disabled IPv4 for the main domain, but since many have complained they cannot reach my blog, I decided to create an ugly subdomain for IPv4: https://myinternetprovidersuckssoihavetouseipv4.danielonsecu...

I genuinely appreciate the DNS snark.

thank you!

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

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Post by Geeflow » Tue, Apr 07, 2020, 12:03 PM UTC

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…

My speculation (I have no data) as to why it works:

Showing this to everybody shows it more reliably to those who actually will sign up. It is hard to target the right people reliably (maybe they deleted their cookies, maybe they use a different device...) so if you just show it to everybody the right people will definitely see it. First time visitors still won't sign up, but significantly more established readers will.

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

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Post by MrGilbert » Tue, Apr 07, 2020, 12:03 PM UTC

janvdberg wrote: post #240

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.

Cool to see someone else using a numeronym as the domain name - I also choose to do so for my site, but haven't any interesting content to share for now.

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

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Post by mickel » Tue, Apr 07, 2020, 12:04 PM UTC

You can find my blog at https://ultimatemachine.se - It's pretty awesome if you're interested in human peak performance, building and running SaaS-products as an Indie Hacker or software engineering in general. I recently quit my CTO job to pursue a solo career building fun & useful products and services with software.

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

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Post by 0xThiebaut » Tue, Apr 07, 2020, 12:04 PM UTC

A cyber-security related blog: https://thiebaut.dev/

I like quality content and hence aim to provide what I am looking for. When publishing, I want to teach the subject. The few posts I aim to publish per year do need to include everything from theory to source-code, accompanied by working proof-of-concepts. The internet is full of content, I want mine to be worth its place. Last but not least, it has to be innovative; no need to reinvent the wheel one more time.