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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?

#271
https://techinch.com as my long-running personal blog, mostly with software reviews, thought pieces on personal technology, and links to posts I've published elsewhere. I don't publish on it nearly enough—but it's the connecting thread between everything else I've published at other sites.

And https://capiche.com/e is my work blog—focused on software pricing, starting with this software inflation rate article: https://capiche.com/e/software-inflation-rate

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

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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 #…

Sorry you feel that way. I'm an independent creator and agree there's lots of room for improvement on everything I build, sometimes I do the thing that works/is quickest to do, move on, and then revisit when I have time - the design of the site, web optimisation techniques, a11y best practices, offline support, less gimmicky call-to-actions, marking deprecated features are examples of things I defo want to prioritise and get done - but I agree with you, I don't want to annoy anyone so I should focus what you mentioned first.

Btw using mobile emulation I tried iPhone 5/SE/6/7/8/X, and on none of those did the signup form take up the whole screen. Maybe it's because the emulation doesn't have browser frames? Either way will eventually shrink that down so it doesn't occupy so much screen real estate.

> 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?

Don't know why you think my emails are spam! I think there are nicer way to convey your message, but appreciate you are sharing your thoughts. I myself often use uBlock origin to select + remove sticky headers/sidebars/ads which often detract from the main reading experience.

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

#273
https://www.ignition-training.com/posts

It's a blog about being a technical trainer. It's new, so there's only a few posts at the moment, but I have lots of notes for future posts. It covers training skills, course development skills, and managing instructors.

The blog is new, but I have been an instructor for nearly twenty years and wanted to share some things I have learned from being on the ground. It's a view that I have not seen in other blogs.

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

#276
https://letsmeetin.space

‘Cause the domain name is clever enough to attract attention. Especially with sub domains. (Which were there before and are going to be there back at some point): Elon.letsmeetin.space , jef.letsmeetin.space. If you’re more insitutional what about nasa.letsmeetin.space.

Blog itself is very random.

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

#277
I run Tedium, which is an obscurities newsletter/blog: https://tedium.co/

It’s been a passion project of mine for about five years, with the general idea of using the internet to find/surface obscure things that don’t get written about very often, with a goal of going against the grain of virality. I would say this dives into tech topics about half the time. (Last week I wrote a piece on the HP TouchPad.)

I keep a fairly regular posting schedule—twice a week, with syndicated pieces from The Conversation as well. Contributed writers are frequently featured with diverse focus areas—one guy is an expert at novelty music, for example.

The approach started as a newsletter, and is built with a newsletter schedule in mind. But it has the length and breadth of a well-researched blog.

Some samples if you’re curious:

HP TouchPad History: https://tedium.co/2020/03/31/hp-touchpad-history/

How Netflix turned Bill Clinton’s impeachment into a growth-hacking opportunity: https://tedium.co/2020/02/06/impeachment-growth-hacking/

An interview with one of the first newsletter authors: https://tedium.co/2020/01/02/this-is-true-randy-cassingham-i...

A history of the LAMP stack, and why it was so important: https://tedium.co/2019/10/01/lamp-stack-php-mysql-apache-his...

And here’s a mission statement, if it helps: https://tedium.co/what-is-tedium

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

#278
http://asemic-horizon.com

It's not for everyone and certainly for not of most of the HN crowd. It's about a web of concepts that is akin to philosophy but has slightly different goals and expectations of itself. It's very self-referential and has built over time a lot of shorthand jargon a.k.a. technical terminology. Takes a while to get into. But I believe it's a fresh way of looking at the ways of looking at contemporary society and events. You'll like it if you're keen of "continental philosophy" albeit it doesn't often cite the standard authors.

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

#279

I run Tedium, which is an obscurities newsletter/blog: https://tedium.co/ It’s been a passion project of mine for about five years, with the general idea of using the internet to find/surface obscure things that don’t get written about very often, with a goal of going against the grain of virality. I would say this dives into tech topics about half the time. (Last week I wrote a piece on the HP TouchPad.) I keep a fa…

I'm a fan of Tedium. Congrats.

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

#280
If you're into finding more video blogs: I'm at http://youtube.com/natekontny

I cover running businesses (successfully and unsuccessfully), software design, science experiments, and just getting through life :) (Cuz it ain't easy for anyone)

(I've also written a ton about these topics over the years at http://ninjasandrobots.com and http://medium.com/@natekontny)

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