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

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Post by Suppafly »

froh wrote: post #52
RajT88 wrote: post #50

The people in your real life don't give a shit about your blog. But random strangers do! At least, if you're contributing something to the world which is wonderful and useful. In my experience, the posts which get the most traffic are simply not going to be the ones you think they will be. I am thinking of both my public and internal blog posts at my company - the most read articles are dumb basic shit that nobody th…

TIL to languor https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/languor#Verb

me too, I've heard it before but never seen it written, which is the opposite of how I learn most words.

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

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Post by Suppafly »

worthless-trash wrote: post #13
xivzgrev wrote: post #6

Even many personal blogs these days are suspect, they’re building a brand. I like this guy is doing his own thing.

Can you tell me the difference between building a brand and this guy ? I struggle to understand what this means, as I dont know what "building a brand" means when a person does it.

>Can you tell me the difference between building a brand and this guy ?

I think it's about intent. Everyone builds a brand to a degree just by being themselves online, but some people do it with an intent to capitalize on it and it often come through in their work in a way that can be distasteful.

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

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Post by ebiester »

reaperducer wrote: post #95
_heimdall wrote: post #94

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> I know it puts off some people who mistake that for anonymity and think this is ruining the web Its interesting that we got to a point where anyone would consider anonymity to be ruining the web. When I was growing up in the 90s and early 00s anonymity online was the whole point. Everything online was behind usernames, and usernames weren't expected to be connected to your real identity at all. Thank you Facebook,…

When I was growing up in the 90s and early 00s anonymity online was the whole point. Everything online was behind usernames, and usernames weren't expected to be connected to your real identity at all. You consider that the norm because that's what you grew up with. Before then, people would sign everything on the internet (and its predecessor networks) with their real names, work/home addresses, phone numbers, and m…

Inside the US, we all were given historical precedents for anonymous speech. While the Declaration of Independence was signed, most of the leaflets arguing for independence were anonymous.

Or, consider Publius as the author of the Federalist papers, a pseudonym for Hamilton, Madison, and John Jay.

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

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Post by beeboobaa3 »

Suppafly wrote: post #120
beeboobaa3 wrote: post #100

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It's what the internet grew up with, actually. > That's why when you create a new user on a *nix box, it asks for that information. That's your local account, not information that is visible to anyone outside of your network.

>That's your local account, not information that is visible to anyone outside of your network. There are a lot of unix tools to ask networks to query that information and they'll happily do it for other unix systems they connect to. When I was in college in the last 90s, I'd often lookup phone numbers and such of students at other universities using command line unix utilities.

Like what? I'm not familiar with any daemons that expose this info on a network interface. Maybe identd? AFAIK that can expose the username, none of the other fields, but is typically set to an alternate identifier.

Or do you mean shared mainframes with many users on the same system? That'd still be local to the system, you just happened to have access to that system.

Are you sure you're not just thinking of ldap/directory lookups?

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

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Post by matrix87 »

fullspectrumdev wrote: post #82
matrix87 wrote: post #34

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> You're writing it for yourself, 99% of the time. The other 1% is the future you. Or alternatively it could be a place for educational stuff like the more detailed answers on stackoverflow. Except the middleman gets removed

In the past I’ve used a blog literally to make small notes on very simple things that I always ended up having to look up, or for notes on the “right way” to do something. For example: for years I was using Pythons requests library incorrectly. The way I was doing it worked - but it wasn’t correct . Once I published a short blog on the correct way - the correct way seemed to stick better in my mind!

> For example: for years I was using Pythons requests library incorrectly. The way I was doing it worked - but it wasn’t correct.

Usually I prefer a git repo for this kind of thing

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

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Post by Suppafly »

beeboobaa3 wrote: post #124
Suppafly wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>That's your local account, not information that is visible to anyone outside of your network. There are a lot of unix tools to ask networks to query that information and they'll happily do it for other unix systems they connect to. When I was in college in the last 90s, I'd often lookup phone numbers and such of students at other universities using command line unix utilities.

Like what? I'm not familiar with any daemons that expose this info on a network interface. Maybe identd? AFAIK that can expose the username, none of the other fields, but is typically set to an alternate identifier. Or do you mean shared mainframes with many users on the same system? That'd still be local to the system, you just happened to have access to that system. Are you sure you're not just thinking of ldap/dir…

Finger is one that was commonly available on university unix systems. You could do finger username@node.domain, and the username was often their email address or some common shortening of their name.

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

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Post by ggm »

matrix87 wrote: post #125
fullspectrumdev wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In the past I’ve used a blog literally to make small notes on very simple things that I always ended up having to look up, or for notes on the “right way” to do something. For example: for years I was using Pythons requests library incorrectly. The way I was doing it worked - but it wasn’t correct . Once I published a short blog on the correct way - the correct way seemed to stick better in my mind!

> For example: for years I was using Pythons requests library incorrectly. The way I was doing it worked - but it wasn’t correct. Usually I prefer a git repo for this kind of thing

You mean.. you're blogging in git, right?

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

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Post by matrix87 »

ggm wrote: post #127
matrix87 wrote: post #125

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> For example: for years I was using Pythons requests library incorrectly. The way I was doing it worked - but it wasn’t correct. Usually I prefer a git repo for this kind of thing

You mean.. you're blogging in git, right?

Kind of, idk if you can call it that. Git frontends like gitea already have markdown rendering so idk what the point is of having a separate thing for blog writing

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

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Post by 0xmutt »

KenHV wrote: post #25

My blog is mostly just me sharing things to my friends; some of them IRL. Short tutorials, highlights from books, etc. https://kenhv.com/blog

Thanks for sharing! Throughly enjoyed reading through these posts. Learned about some interesting Firefox settings to try out.

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

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Post by achileas »

craigkerstiens wrote: post #4

I love when friends do this. It's hard to keep up with people and what they're up to. Publishing and letting people subscribe to me is a great way to share things. A few examples of some friends who are doing this: Justin Searls (fairly known in Ruby and Rails community) mostly quit a lot of various social channels though publishes on some of them one direction. He started a podcast that wasn't meant to be guests of…

This gives me heart. I like writing about technical things, but I also like writing about personal things, concerts I went to, whatever. I'm a whole person, and I never liked the pressure (mostly from social media) to build your "brand" around one genre or style of writing. For me, my site is a personal one where I post about things I'm interested in. Ham radio, machine learning, my travels, pay phones, whatever. Maybe less useful for a reader or audience building but...I just like to write and share things.
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