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

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Post by danShumway »

https://danshumway.com

https://danshumway.com/rss.xml

Most of my posts are about technical topics, but they rarely end up being pure tutorials; they're usually relating back to system design, projects/games, or current events.

My blog also features no Javascript requirements and no tracking of any kind, including Google Analytics. I'm in the middle of a rewrite that will make it even smaller and faster to load, and that will eventually get rid of even the minimal Cloudflare cookie.

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Posts I'm proud of:

- https://danshumway.com/blog/gamasutra-vulnerabilities/: Breaking down multiple security vulnerabilities in the game industry blogging platform, Gamasutra.

- https://danshumway.com/blog/chrome-autoplay/: A pretty extensive overview about why the Indie Games industry freaked out about Chrome's Web Audio changes.

- https://danshumway.com/blog/design-is-implementation/: A technical deep dive into how I built an internally consistent time-travel simulation for a video game, Loop Thesis.

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

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Post by turoczy »

https://siliconflorist.com/

I hesitated to respond because it's not exactly awesome. But for anyone interested in what's happening in the Portland, Oregon, startup community, it's +12 years of content in that regard. Written mostly by me. Who happens to be a human on a regular basis. A human with bad grammar.

Also, people so rarely ask about blogs anymore that I was compelled to respond. So thank you.

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

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Post by snazz »

mgreenleaf wrote: post #231

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 m…

Your website gives me a TLS error (Firefox 75.0, Linux):

> Secure Connection Failed

> An error occurred during a connection to arcane.blog. Peer’s certificate has an invalid signature.

> Error code: SEC_ERROR_BAD_SIGNATURE

> The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified. > Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem.

Edit: Works fine now

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

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Post by RookyNumbas »

umaar wrote: post #272
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 #…

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…

> Don't know why you think my emails are spam!

Remember, we don't know anything about your site yet. We haven't read any of your content yet. How would we possibly know that your emails might be worthwhile?

It's like when an app asks you to rate it the first time you've opened it. Maybe it is a good app, and maybe it deserves a great rating after a week of use. But it's a very bad first impression.

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

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Post by thejoeflow »

https://thejoeflow.com/blog

I write about...books. I don't think there's much point to reading it unless you've already read the book I'm talking about.

I mostly do it because I found I use to read books and then never talk about them or think about them afterwards so I would just forget about the book after a little while. I figured that writing something down about the book would help clarify my thoughts on it and I could remember it better.

I also wanted to build something with spring boot and kotlin so this was it.

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

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Post by tstegart »

https://basicbands.com/

It is my side project, a blog about watch straps.

You should read it because the world of custom watch straps is actually pretty amazing and full of really cool artists doing leatherwork. If any of you own watches and want a new strap, check out my list of custom watch strap makers: https://basicbands.com/list-of-custom-watch-strap-companies/

The work there is incredible, and its a lot of fun interacting with and interviewing artists. I realized after I started how small most watch strap companies are. Its a very pleasant side project that bring in about $200 a month (mostly through Amazon affiliate sales on watches).

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