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This is purely an outlet of raw creativity, because I have nowhere else to go with it.
Other than that I have never wondered what the purpose of my website is. It has brought me some moderate passive income of about $1000 per year over the lifetime of the site, all of it through book sales.
But mainly, I've derived lots of personal satisfaction from the writing process [3] and the making of the site [4] and site maker (everything is hand-rolled).
ref:
[1] https://www.evalapply.org/posts/shell-aint-a-bad-place-to-fp...
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34486596
[3] https://www.evalapply.org/posts/hello-world/
[4] https://www.evalapply.org/posts/shite-the-static-sites-from-...
A memorable URL is something that is much better compared to a visiting card. My website design is still oldschool and it keeps me grounded as to where I am coming from.
From time to time (like now) I update my one page resume over it and thats it.
My website is www.OneLife.in I am amazed why people do not still own their own websites particulary as they can easily create one using a github account.
A website does not need to have a domain name. A github account could suffice. Possibly people are just lazy and possibly scared about writing about themselves to strangers.
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Did you document any part of it on your blog? Or was it just a personal memory for you alone? Either way, fucking dope.
i did. It is really old so the writing is very cringe... search cherokee cave tour and my username to find it.
It's not cringy - I thoroughly enjoyed it! Out of curiosity, were you able to verify the firefighter story?
Edit: I've removed the link.
There is an extensive network of caves under my city that were used by beer breweries in the 1800's to store beer. They are all but inaccessible, and, at the time, kind of a myth. Most people didn't believe they still existed. I was fascinated by this and I compiled as much information as I could find on my personal website in the early 2000's. One day I received an email, "do you want to go into the caves? I know so…
When it rains, no drains.
There is an extensive network of caves under my city that were used by beer breweries in the 1800's to store beer. They are all but inaccessible, and, at the time, kind of a myth. Most people didn't believe they still existed. I was fascinated by this and I compiled as much information as I could find on my personal website in the early 2000's. One day I received an email, "do you want to go into the caves? I know so…
> Best part is I didn't get murdered. Pretty important if you ask me
;-)
My old blog was all for laughs, vanity and stupid terminal tricks. Not much lost.
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i did. It is really old so the writing is very cringe... search cherokee cave tour and my username to find it.
I found it! It's not cringy - I thoroughly enjoyed it! Out of curiosity, were you able to verify the firefighter story? Edit: I've removed the link.
And, no, i never did verify the firefighter story.
I've been running a blog at https://xeiaso.net for almost a decade now. It has been the single best decision I have ever made in my career. It allows me to skip technical screening interviews. It has made interviewing at companies _easy_ because I have _already proven_ that I understand what I'm talking about. Learning how to write well also makes it so much easier to explain things succinctly, especially when workin…
This is a form of self-destruction that helps create the illusion of salvation from self-destruction. For example, BDD (Blog Driven Development). You blog for people who don't care what you do, and you only do it because you don't care what you do. This is a public imitation of motivation for no one and nothing. Well, except that AI owners are happy, more human-written texts means more feed for the omnivorous algorit…