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An audience finds them interesting or not. Interest is a property of the listener or observer.
You can just comment on the things you find interesting, and presumably there are some people out there more or less like you that will find the same things interesting.
It is worth noting that it takes some skill and effort to make things interesting for an audience, and that can be substantial.
I have a blog. Almost nobody reads it. That's okay! I treat it like a public notebook. When I find something interesting, I write a quick blog post. When I have to muddle through a technical issue that requires piecing together multiple other sources on the Internet, I write a blog post to summarize. I've written blog posts on getting Walmart security videos to play (Verint codec is a bitch), decoding Marine Corps br…
I also mostly use it as a public brain dump for things that I don't want to forget.
I think you have plenty of interesting things to say. I'm in the same boat as you are, but I think if you put yourself out there you'd be surprised how much interest there is in the things you write. I had a blog post featured in a Ruby newsletter because I shared it on Reddit: https://blog.ty-porter.dev/
> They are your typical run-of-the-mill tutorials that replicate what's written on the official framework/language guide Yep, I'd like to permanently blacklist those idiotic baeldung, w3schools, tutorialspoint, and geeksforgeeks blogspam entries that SEO'ed themselves to the top of every google search I do for anything programming related.
There's an extension for Chrome and Firefox called "uBlacklist" that lets you do exactly this - you can maintain a list of domains that you never want to appear in the results of Google searches that you do.
> I don't have anything interesting to say I don't agree with this part. I use my blog to keep a journal on technical issues that were hard to fix, or was hard to find web sources about the subject. One of my top post is about using PFSense router with Verizon FIOS. It usually receives 2-3 unique visitors a day. It is simple and not interesting, but it helps a few people, so I keep it online. https://ianmf.com
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There's an extension for Chrome and Firefox called "uBlacklist" that lets you do exactly this - you can maintain a list of domains that you never want to appear in the results of Google searches that you do.
Is there such a thing for Firefox?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's an extension for Chrome and Firefox called "uBlacklist" that lets you do exactly this - you can maintain a list of domains that you never want to appear in the results of Google searches that you do.
Is there such a thing for Firefox?
I’m confused, is this not a blog post? It was a good read, you clearly have interesting things to say! I do share a lot of the same things you describe. I would like to blog, mainly for myself to practice writing and keep a record of things, but yeah, it’s difficult. I also find it’s a lot of work to do the research and all, time I maybe rather spend on building things.
It is, but AFAICT the entire blog is just this post.
> I also find it’s a lot of work to do the research and all, time I maybe rather spend on building things
I found it useful to set a timer and write about small things, e.g. through this post [1] about blocking websites with /etc/hosts. It took about 20 minutes and I can share it with my interested friends. If I were a little faster, I could probably do it in 10.
[1]: https://arunkprasad.com/log/how-to-break-the-habit-loop-for-...