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Re: Re: Do people IRL know you have a blog?

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Post by Carrok »

Brajeshwar wrote: post #22

During the early days of Blogging (I meant the early 2000s), when we met up in person during conferences, we talked a lot about blog posts, etc. I once let one of my cousins tag along as I spoke at a conference organized by Macromedia. I did the usual thing with others there, talking about blogs. When we returned home, my cousin said, “You are kind of a deal. People know you by your blog - brajeshwar.com.” I’ve been…

> Macromedia

Reading this term hit my brain with such a sudden wave of nostalgia. It really was a different time.

Re: Re: Do people IRL know you have a blog?

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Post by lifestyleguru »

firefoxd wrote: post #11

Earlier in my career, every single person in my team had a website. At lunch we would talk about how we built it, servers, fail2ban, zipbomb, etc. Many years later, one coworker has a website under construction, and others say they have nothing to say online. When i bring up a blog post I wrote years ago, relevant to a conversation, I feel like a charlatan trying to sell a product. But hey, I'm happy to write in the…

> When i bring up a blog post I wrote years ago, relevant to a conversation, I feel like a charlatan trying to sell a product.

Influencing killed it. Nowadays people bring up their online presence when they want views, impressions, and subscriptions, when they are trying to bump follower count.

Re: Re: Do people IRL know you have a blog?

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Post by janalsncm »

I think you can either have a “corporate” blog attached to your name (whose purpose is to bolster your professional reputation, among other things) and an opinion-based blog with a pseudonym. The two can never touch.

My philosophy on this is that anything worth saying, that isn’t some tepid opinion about pizza or your pet, will probably irritate some people. And while the internet isn’t forever, it’s got a fairly long memory.

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Post by FartinMowler »

knorker wrote: post #60
Brajeshwar wrote: post #22

During the early days of Blogging (I meant the early 2000s), when we met up in person during conferences, we talked a lot about blog posts, etc. I once let one of my cousins tag along as I spoke at a conference organized by Macromedia. I did the usual thing with others there, talking about blogs. When we returned home, my cousin said, “You are kind of a deal. People know you by your blog - brajeshwar.com.” I’ve been…

Actually producing value is so last millennium. Ok boomer, you add value. We don't do that here. Unless you make TikToks endlessly aspiring to be a societal net loss kardashian, why are you even breathing? Writing text? Can't the computer just do that, somehow?

(having a flashback to the bile blog)

Re: Re: Do people IRL know you have a blog?

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Post by voidUpdate »

I've attempted to show my website to my family a couple of times, but I'm a techy in a generally non-techy family, so they're not particularly interested. I mostly use it to talk about things I've done and I have referred back to it on a couple of occasions when I know I've solved a problem before and want to see how I did it at the time.

I attach it to my CV so I keep it professional enough for someone else to look at that I would want to impress, but still pretty casual because I try to write like I'm explaining it to a friend, someone who knows basic programming stuff but is a novice to the actual topic of the article

Re: Re: Do people IRL know you have a blog?

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Post by underdeserver »

People who read blogs, especially in the software industry, are still a tiny minority.

There are maybe tens of millions of software engineers, designers, product managers, entrepreneurs and other tech-adjacent workers in the world. HN is one of the most popular tech sites among hardcore techies, at least in my circles.

And yet the top posts of all time get thousands of upvotes. Add 10x lurkers and you get tens of thousands of users. That's still 0.1% of the total above.

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Post by hellweaver666 »

I remember back in the early 00's someone at work found out about my blog and news got around the office (it was a personal blog, more like a diary and I was in my late teens so it was kinda "edgy"). Anyways... within a few days I started getting a bunch of troll comments and it took all the fun out of it knowing everything I wrote was being read by my colleagues.
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