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Re: Ask HN: What has your personal website/blog done for you?

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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…

Your blog always blows me away with how different and fun it is. I only dream of being that authentic online. I love the call-outs from the specific personalities. So great!

Assuming your threat profile allows for it, go for it! The main difficulty I run into is Hacker News being _incredibly toxic_ in the comments on my articles at times, especially if I talk about anything contentious or break from the intellectual mold that this site has. You'd be sad to know the number of people that accused me of being a [threat to children] because I'm openly queer/furry on my blog.

Re: Ask HN: What has your personal website/blog done for you?

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post #148

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The font is awesome. Can you please tell which font it is.

It's just this: p, .conversation-chat, blockquote, em, strong { font-size: 1rem; font-style: normal; font-family: Menlo, monospace; } That's really the heart of it. I've wanted to try using a sans-serif font like Inter, but I'm stuck in a pit where people expect me to use a monospace font and any attempt to move away from that means I basically change a huge part of the site's visual identity. I'm still trying to fig…

Atkinson's hyperlegible?

Re: Ask HN: What has your personal website/blog done for you?

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post #12

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…

I hope one day to have a site as cool as yours.

Love this line!

"This code is free as in mattress. If you decide to use it, it's your problem."

https://xeiaso.net/blog/GraphicalEmoji

Re: Ask HN: What has your personal website/blog done for you?

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2 years ago I started a blog about statistics/ML and how they are used in business, purely to improve my writing and communication skills. I don't advertise the blog, and it's very likely had 0 hits, but knowing it's 'out there' makes me really care about the content and how it's presented and communicated.

Re: Ask HN: What has your personal website/blog done for you?

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post #12

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…

Hi Xe, I am an avid reader of your blog. You have fantastic content and come across as someone with interesting opinions that I enjoy reading about.

Thanks for all the knowledge sharing and education efforts you put into all sorts of areas I am interested in (Linux internals, NixOS, Rust, etc.)

Re: Ask HN: What has your personal website/blog done for you?

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post #273

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"Things" are objectively not more dangerous, in fact quite the opposite.

Overall things are much safer, but contact by scammers online (online scams in general) is much more a thing now than it was then. There was a turning point in the mid-late aughts for me where the level of trustworthiness of random anonymous online contacts took a dive.

This is my feeling as well. For some reason online community feels more "trustable" in the early 2000s. That is definitely NOT true today.
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