On a related note (2008 called, it asked about microblogging) if you guys have Twitter, what is your handle? Looking to expand my timeline too!
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?
#392https://www.jefftk.com/ I write about making music, building things, software, contra dance, effective altruism, parenting, weird ideas, and anything else I think of. Posts I've written that have been popular here: * https://www.jefftk.com/p/let-people-move-to-jobs * https://www.jefftk.com/p/shared-cache-is-going-away * https://www.jefftk.com/p/how-to-parent-more-predictably * https://www.jefftk.com/p/survey-of-histo…
As a contra dancer, I'm thrilled to find this! Your Bleach blog post is also very handy, and I'm looking forward to exploring more.
All my posts about contra dance: https://www.jefftk.com/news/contra
Bleach post: https://www.jefftk.com/p/bleach
Re: Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?
#393https://commoncog.com/blog/ I write mostly about career moats. I wrote a post about the Metagame that was on HN's front page a few weeks ago. But the context in which that post exists is actually in the context of smart thinking in one's career. My hard rule with the blog is that I should (as much as possible) write only about things I can verify through practice. None of that 'it sounds insightful because it is nove…
"My hard rule with the blog is that I should (as much as possible) write only about things I can verify through practice." Kudos. If only more bloggers held the same standard, the internet would be a better place ;)
Re: Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?
#394On a related note (2008 called, it asked about microblogging) if you guys have Twitter, what is your handle? Looking to expand my timeline too!
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Re: Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?
#395Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
To be clear, my information is out of date because I don't do this kind of work anymore, but my understanding is that it's largely the same now.
1. I know because I sold to my list, and the people who signed up from intrusive signup popups were just as likely to buy my products as anyone else, and their virality was the ~same as other sources (ie. the rate at which they shared my stuff). I guess it's possible that an army of bots was sharing my posts and buying my products, but..?
2. Yes, bounce rate is a basic thing almost everyone monitors, and yes, intrusive popups increase bounce rate. But less than you might imagine, and not nearly enough to turn the tide of increased signups.
Like I said, I find it counter intuitive myself, and have no real explanation, just made up stories about it. All I know is that what I consider to be intrusive signup processes have had a life altering effect on my bank account.
Re: Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?
#396https://www.walkedtheblueline.com It will document my 10 year journey as a Police Officer in Australia and transition back into the real world. (plus it gives me a document of my time before is dispaears into eternity) The other half will be interviews/profiles of other former officers that have moved on / medically retired with pstd and how leaving the force has effected them. It may not be the most admired occupati…
Interesting topic and motive. Hope the first couple steps you've taken become a journey of a thousand. Do you work in tech now or what brings you to HN? I'm always interested in people explicitly outside tech on here...
Re: Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?
#397https://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 t…
I just wanted to say I really like the format of your site - particularly your implementation of sidenotes.
Thanks!
For anyone reading this who wants more information on how they work without needing to dig through the site's source code, there's a quick demo I have up on JSFiddle. This was written a while ago, I suspect there are easier ways to make this work today.
- Asides using only floats: http://jsfiddle.net/danShumway/0wqkk578/
There are a few irritations I have with the sidenotes that I want to clear up in the redesign (specifically for mobile readers), so this implementation might get tweaked a little bit in the future.
The hanging quotes are probably the part of this site I'm most proud of. They're pure HTML/CSS and render as smart quotes, but if you select the text to copy, you'll get normal straight quotes, which makes pasting into sites like HN slightly nicer and more consistent. The implementation was kind of cobbled together from a couple of other sites, and then extended to be more robust and support a few edge-case scenarios.
- Hanging quotes both at the start and within paragraphs: http://jsfiddle.net/danShumway/36jag4o2/
Re: Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?
#398http://web.eecs.utk.edu/~azh/blog.html
I’m a professor that blogs about game development, compilers, UI design, and academia.
Re: Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?
#399My 'blog' is more a collection of game reviews, but it's definitely written by an actual human being! I used to write an actual blog about CSS but I found it punishingly difficult to keep up regularly — still, there's loads of old content lying in archive.org which I'm going to revive one day. https://bobbyjack.me/
Re: Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?
#400https://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.
Hey Rick, how are things going over there!? Haven't seen that URL in a while!