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Re: Hunting the Nearly-Invisible Personal Website

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Post by kixiQu »

thomascgalvin wrote: post #38
lwigo wrote: post #34

There was a huge push for "new coders" to start their own blogs about problems they encounter and such, especially as part of the bootcamp that I was working for. I wonder if that is still a thing.

I wonder if that's for resume padding? People post their blog entries to LinkedIn as social proof of their skills pretty frequently.

Even though the technical skills I see explained are often quite basic, done well it's valid proof of whether they can explain something in writing, which comes up at my work a lot.

Re: Hunting the Nearly-Invisible Personal Website

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Post by AtlasBarfed »

dusted wrote: post #5

Webrings are back :D Put your personal sites in a webring! :)

The problem with webrings was if they got too big, IIRC? Well, and if the chain was broken.

It would be nice to have branching webrings, so that a site in one webring that also "bridged" to a different ring, or a more specific topic (or less) could also link there.

As always there is the problem of curation.

Re: Hunting the Nearly-Invisible Personal Website

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Post by jefftk »

SamBam wrote: post #50
jefftk wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My site is also using Drev DeVault’s openring, which is a relatively new tool.

Random question, since your site came up: what do your kids use to make their personal pages? Thinking of doing something similar with my 7-year-old and 4-year-old this fall.

They dictate and I type plain html + css. Sometimes they ask for complicated things (like when Lily first wanted polka dots) and I look it up.

Lily's Inxed page and RSS feed are from a script I wrote that does it manually: https://github.com/jeffkaufman/webscripts/blob/master/lilyrs...

I wrote about this some here: https://www.jefftk.com/p/helping-the-kids-post

Re: Hunting the Nearly-Invisible Personal Website

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Post by dheera »

lettergram wrote: post #39

Much of my personal blog is actually ranked on Google for terms. I tend to keep my notes in my blog, I share it on HN and Reddit. It’s important to develop a personal brand, but also to share knowledge. My personal, unquantifiable goal, is saving a million man hours through my blog posts. So many things are implemented or explored, but never shared. Knowledge in a vacuum is useless to society. I wish more people woul…

I actually would write more, if people would read it.

Unfortunately, if I write a blog on my personal website, nobody is going to find it. And I don't like Medium for their policy of forcing people to paywall their content in return for visibility.

If I post a link to a blog post on my website to Facebook, Facebook downranks it and doesn't show it to most of my friends (seriously, WTF).

The only thing I can do is post the actual text on Facebook, if I want people to read it, but there's a limit on post length, and in-line media isn't supported.

Re: Hunting the Nearly-Invisible Personal Website

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Post by ryantgtg »

ehonda wrote: post #24

wiby.me - a search engine for websites similar to what OP is looking for

wiby.me appears to be a search engine for web pages, not websites. On their submission form, if you are submitting a blog they ask that you submit link to a specific post, and not the index. That was enough to dissuade me from submitting my personal site. I guess I just don't get it.

Re: Hunting the Nearly-Invisible Personal Website

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Post by 6ak74rfy »

I recently setup a personal website. My intent was to migrate a few old blog posts from WordPress and, more importantly, make my notes public. After trying a bunch of note-taking apps, I realized that most of my private notes didn't contain any private information, so I thought why not just make them public as-is.

My setup is (almost) free, mostly built on open components (so, no vendor lock in) and pretty low-latency. See if you'd like some inspiration on how to setup something similar for yourself: https://ketanvijayvargiya.com/posts/58-setup-blog-and-email-...

Re: Hunting the Nearly-Invisible Personal Website

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Post by slx26 »

lettergram wrote: post #39

Much of my personal blog is actually ranked on Google for terms. I tend to keep my notes in my blog, I share it on HN and Reddit. It’s important to develop a personal brand, but also to share knowledge. My personal, unquantifiable goal, is saving a million man hours through my blog posts. So many things are implemented or explored, but never shared. Knowledge in a vacuum is useless to society. I wish more people woul…

Yes, I often like to say: imagine if the general public instead of wikipedia only had the papers used as references. It's not about all the knowledge we have, it's about how accessible it is. And for humans to make sense of knowledge, we usually need to be introduced to models or simpler abstractions first. If we didn't only had the knowledge but it was actually accessible in human-friendly ways, like 3blue1brown level and above (and tools and frameworks and playgrounds too, not only generic knowledge; models are vital for humans to make sense of things!), the potential wouldn't only be extraordinary, it would be fulfilled. Or that's what I live dreaming about.

Re: Hunting the Nearly-Invisible Personal Website

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Post by Kihashi »

thomascgalvin wrote: post #38
lwigo wrote: post #34

There was a huge push for "new coders" to start their own blogs about problems they encounter and such, especially as part of the bootcamp that I was working for. I wonder if that is still a thing.

I wonder if that's for resume padding? People post their blog entries to LinkedIn as social proof of their skills pretty frequently.

There's also value in having a beginner's perspective on stuff- What concepts weren't clear? Was there some documentation that was difficult for a beginner to grok? What helped the pieces fall into place?

There's a school of thought w.r.t. project documentation that encourages beginners to write beginner focused documentation since the people who are experts on the project don't always have the perspective to effectively communicate to beginners.

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