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Why don't I have a blog?

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Re: Why don't I have a blog?

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Post by cercatrova »

mattbrewsbytes wrote: post #35
commandlinefan wrote: post #8

> 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.

Whats funny is they have SEO'd their way to the top and once you are accustomed to it and scroll past them you are also scrolling past the top (or maybe all) the ads on the right hand side of search results.

Everyone should be using uBlock Origin anyways. I don't remember the last time I saw search ads, or any online ads for that matter.

Re: Why don't I have a blog?

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Post by zelphirkalt »

johnchristopher wrote: post #98
zelphirkalt wrote: post #64

I myself would really like to have a blog again, like I used to have. Sometimes write a post or write about some software I am trying to write. However, I do not have a blog. Not, because I could not easily make one. I could indeed easily create one. I wrote multiple blog software thingies myself in the past. I do not have a blog, because of laws, where I live. There is a law, that you must put your contact informati…

> I would like to make fun of politicians and write about how they are doing things wrong. > [..] > It is really sad, that the law is this silly and basically antagonistic towards blogging and not wanting every perv on the net to know, where I live or how to give me a call. Not saying you would write anything bad but what's fun to one can be libel or hate speech to another. "It was just a joke, dude" shouldn't fly. T…

> What's the situation like in practice ?

Not sure I want to find out in practice. You can be ruled to have to pay up to what was it? 25k or 50k€. In the past there have been "Abmahnwellen" (literal translation "sue waves"), where lawyers tons of letters to any website superficially not conforming to the law. I wish they were doing that now with GDPR in place, but it does not seem to happen for some reason. Perhaps because organizations can fight back more easily or are less easily cowed into paying fines and thus would be too much work for them. Writing about anything political could be interpreted as "journalistic" and I would actually be breaking the law, not having contact info of specific form on my site. The law is even formulated in a way, that you must put contact info, even if you host your site in other countries or regions, because you "operate" here. In the post cases have shown, that you also cannot use a mail box / post box as contact info either.

I guess you could make a blog on some random blogging site, not self hosted, so that one could not get your name by asking the hoster of your server and by using a fake name and always connecting to it using a reliable VPN service. But yeah, that would be against the law ...

Re: Why don't I have a blog?

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Post by poletopole »

pawptart wrote: post #75
poletopole wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for sharing. I know the answer for the following question may differ for the individual, but how long (or how many posts) did it take to find your “stride” so to speak?

I wouldn't say I have a "stride" now. I don't write unless I personally feel the topic is interesting so it's tough to call my writing scheduled or disciplined. Most of my posts go almost completely unread -- that's fine by me.

That makes sense. I’m used to write almost compulsively (but just for my eyes).

I see the value in having a blog in that it does no harm to contribute something likely no one will find.

Some of the best essays I have written started out as letters, after all.

Re: Why don't I have a blog?

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Post by pgwhalen »

Brajeshwar wrote: post #79

I used to blog a lot. I used to be active on lots of forums and they were the source of inspiration. Someone would ask a question, I'd write it out as a blog post and then keep linking to it instead of answering repeatedly. I remember writing blog posts like tweets. Now, there are too many contents online (both good and bad), and I always felt "someone must have written about it somewhere." A few years back, I began…

I similarly have a “tech blog” that only a couple of non-tech friends know about (admittedly it wouldn’t be hard to find if someone searched for it, but who would want to do that). It’s good writing and thinking practice, especially because when my friends read it they make fun of it in ways that help me clear up my writing, even if they don’t fully understand the content.

Maybe one day I’ll post it to hacker news.

Re: Why don't I have a blog?

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Post by Brajeshwar »

cercatrova wrote: post #100
Brajeshwar wrote: post #79

I used to blog a lot. I used to be active on lots of forums and they were the source of inspiration. Someone would ask a question, I'd write it out as a blog post and then keep linking to it instead of answering repeatedly. I remember writing blog posts like tweets. Now, there are too many contents online (both good and bad), and I always felt "someone must have written about it somewhere." A few years back, I began…

This is nice to hear. I've favorited your comment on HN. I do something similar where I try to write what happened to me every day, it makes it interesting to look back over the years.

I'm really honored and flattered. People don't usually favorite my stuff and you just made my day. Thanks a lot.

Re: Why don't I have a blog?

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Post by env123 »

codeptualize wrote: post #3

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.

He didn't clarify the title that he's referring to TECH blog for clickbait

Re: Why don't I have a blog?

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Post by realAzazello »

commandlinefan wrote: post #8

> 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.

Try the userscript "Google Hit Hider by Domain (Search Filter / Block Sites)" by Jefferson Scher, whom you may know as one of the top support specialist at Mozilla: http://www.jeffersonscher.com/gm/google-hit-hider/

"GHHbD" is a precursor to uBlacklist; and was THE replacement to blocking sites on Google Search after Google removed the built-in function, many years ago.

The disadvantage of GHHbD is that it doesn't handled regex filtering. However one of its many advantages is that it does block TLDs: https://greasyfork.org/en/forum/discussion/comment/55821/#Co...

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