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When I was a kid in the late 90's making a personal website was my motivation to learn programming. In my 20's it was my blog while I traveled around the world, which I used as a way to communicate with my family and friends. Now in my 30's it's helped me excel my career in web/software development as I have turned it into a side project to build a desktop environment in the browser. Feel free to check it out: https:…
I have a few ML-related demos on my blog that I created in school to help me to understand some fundamental concepts. I have pointed to them during interviews and I think they helped to demonstrate a depth of knowledge that words alone could not.
According to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer_random_chess#White's_a...,
> It has been argued that two games should be played from each starting position, with players alternating colors, since the advantage offered to White in some initial positions may be greater than in classical chess. However, ..... on average a Fischer Random starting position is 22.2% less unbalanced than the standard starting position.
Here's a Reddit post from October 2022 (https://old.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/yeregq/fischer_rando...) that states the following:
> Mean centipawn advantage for white - 36.82 Standard deviation - 13.79 Most "unfair" positions with +0.79 advantage
If I am interpreting your diagram correctly, it appears that Fischer Random Chess provides more balanced positions.
I've been blogging since 1998 and can trace every major step forward in my career to my blog. In 2003 I started writing about social networking and education - the replies to that blog post helped me kickstart my first startup. In 2009 my blog posts about technology ethics led to me giving a talk at Harvard, which led to my becoming the first employee at a media tech startup. That in turn led to me learning more abou…
Edinburgh is a pretty fantastic place to start off, FWIW
People with blogs, don't you feel worried that you might get something wrong in your posts, which will bite you in the behind during recruitment processes? (That, and time commitment are the primary reasons I don't blog.)
I've been blogging since 1998 and can trace every major step forward in my career to my blog. In 2003 I started writing about social networking and education - the replies to that blog post helped me kickstart my first startup. In 2009 my blog posts about technology ethics led to me giving a talk at Harvard, which led to my becoming the first employee at a media tech startup. That in turn led to me learning more abou…
Way back when Joel Spolsky was a high-profile blogger in the "starting your own software business" genre, I asked him for advice about my blogging, and he replied "Stop what you're doing and get your blog onto your own domain." I had procrastinated because other platforms made everything so damn easy, and hosting my own blog meant being a part-time web admin. But I took his advice, and set up http://raganwald.com . S…
Example: https://simonwillison.net/2004/Jan/22/defendingWebApplicatio... - at the bottom it says "Previously hosted at http://simon.incutio.com/archive/2004/01/22/defendingWebAppl..."
I just tested it and it works! https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=http%3A...
I thought peer to peer social software was my future. I was going to speak at O’Reilly p2pcon September 23, 2001 in Washington DC. Well that didn't happen thanks to 9/11.
So unemployed after the bust I got into a masters program in Toronto to extend my ideas from MeatballWiki.
I met the love of my life and married her later. I got a job running marketing at FreshBooks and went hard into SaaS partnerships.
From there I created the Cloud Software Association and the SaaS Connect conference. Now I have my own startup AppBind to solve partnership problems.
So, not much.
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Whoever you use, Medium, Substack, Wordpress, your blog is in their hands. If one day you forget to do XYZ task, they can take it all away. You need to control your audience to reduce chances of "unforeseen circumstances"
I see your point and agree - Substack etc may exist today but might not in 2-3-5y down the line and it'd be valuable to have hold of your own writing from Day 1. On a different note, what has been the value of "creative posts" and even "creative name for your blog" for you? I am overthinking this but sometimes I find myself wondering whether my post is really all that useful, that my blog should have a more creative/…
The vast majority of traffic you get to your blog these days will be because somewhere linked to an individual post.
As long as it's readable, the people who arrive to read that post won't care about the branding that surrounds it.
People with blogs, don't you feel worried that you might get something wrong in your posts, which will bite you in the behind during recruitment processes? (That, and time commitment are the primary reasons I don't blog.)
There’s lots of brilliant engineers in the world. I’m pretty good, but I’ll never be the best programmer on the team. But I am exceptionally good at working with designers, artists, scientists, and hardware engineers.
Communication is the hardest problem in tech. Writing is thinking. It’s a skill that takes practice the same as any other. It’s 100% worth the investment.