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It's my own retrospection / notes / and now also marketing for my books Deployment from Scratch and Kamal Handbook.
I get around 6k/mo visits, it's not really growing but I also never wrote "for SEO", just whatever I am dealing with.
As for promotion I submit the better posts to Ruby subreddit and I am lucky my posts are often picked up by 2 Ruby newsletters.
The fact that so few people blog these days makes blogging even more influential than it used to be. You can establish yourself as something of a global expert on some topic just by writing about it a few times a month over the course of a year! Don't expect people to come to your blog. Practice https://indieweb.org/POSSE - Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere - post things on your blog and then tweet/toot…
I don't have a blog, but I POSSE by keeping stuff I write in Obsidian.
The internet is a circular loop of "engagement", the same crap comes up everywhere. People as recommendations for the same stuff, argue about the same things.
I got tired of rewriting the same thing from memory so now I have it pre-written (And sourced in some cases) in Obsidian. I can just copy-paste from there with minor modifications and updates and spend less energy in shooting down the most common misconceptions.
Might turn it into a blog later, but I've tried it a few times and I always end up bikeshedding about blog engines and themes and deployment :D
Define "worth it", but I've written a blog post about some printer driver issue two years ago and it now happened twice that someone (Older person, not very technical) reached out over email and asked for some further help and I could walk them step by step through using a Terminal, booting into macOS recovery mode and fixing the issue. The Apple store and Epson told them to do a clean install so they were very grate…
In the ye olden days people just blogged about stuff they found interesting. If nobody read it, it was still out there for someone to find. I can remember multiple times where finding some obscure blog helped me debug an issue I had.
Now it's all hidden in Reddit or even worse in TikTok or Youtube videos that won't get indexed properly.
I’m also bias, since I run the Bear blogging platform. There are thousands of very happy personal bloggers there with close to zero SEO goop (strict review process, and all that).
But God dammit, I am still staking my claim on this tiny space on the internet. This is my little digital garden, and it still attracts the occasional friend. If not, at least it stays mine and won't disappear when some walled garden is incentivized to raise its walls.
I enjoy writing. I enjoy sharing recipes. I enjoy having a space that is representative of my interests.
The fact that so few people blog these days makes blogging even more influential than it used to be. You can establish yourself as something of a global expert on some topic just by writing about it a few times a month over the course of a year! Don't expect people to come to your blog. Practice https://indieweb.org/POSSE - Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere - post things on your blog and then tweet/toot…
Maintaining a blog in 2025 is worth it if you do not mind almost all of your readers being LLMs that ingest your work and repackage in ways that prevent you from being aware of your actual human readership, often without credit and for profit of their operators.