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Curated list of personal blogs
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#112I am afraid to blog. I could write about my career and my hobby, but those do not seem to be interesting for others. My opinion may be interesting, but it is risky because something I write may come back to offend others one day, or get me in trouble. One time ago I considered blogging anonymously about the economy but doing so anonymously felt disingenuous.
Anonymity is not disingenuous. If you want to be super scrupulous about this, choose a pseudonym that is clearly not a real name.
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#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
He's concerned that his views may become controversial in future. Someone with published centre-right views in Cambodia in 1965 would have felt fairly safe. Fifteen years later they would have been dead. (Ah! I notice you've edited it. It's worth pointing out that 'Political Correctness' was originally a term to describe the 'correct' behaviour of people in totalitarian states.)
I respond to posts the same way I write code. I write it first, then look for edge cases. Perhaps I should add a new step, post after the edge cases have been considered.
> Perhaps I should add a new step, post after the edge cases have been considered
Or use the "delay" feature on your HN profile page: e.g. mine is set to 2, meaning after I post a comment, I have 2 minutes to edit, reconsider, proofread or delete before anyone sees it.
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#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
Haha, if websites like that that are where you're getting your news from, I can see why you're terrified all the time! I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree. I'll choose to take the risk and keep blogging about grapes :)
I'm sorry, are you suggesting that these things didn't happen? Because that is the only translation I have of "getting your news from." Is the idea that the NBC San Diego branch just ... made this up? That the BBC ( https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000d70h ) fabricated this wholesale? Let's just click through some of those hyperlinks in the Unherd thing. https://fringeassociation.com/2019/01/07/2019-my-year-of-col..…
I'm not saying they don't happen, what I'm saying is if you immerse yourself in a constant stream of "here's a bad thing that happened to one person out of the dozens of millions of people who created content on the Internet today", you'll get a really distorted view of what's actually happening. It's like never leaving your house because you see shootings and murder reports every day on local news. You're missing out on a whole lot because of the distorted view that kind of information diet gives you.
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#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
If all writing is from a present understanding, how could it hurt reader trust to acknowledge that explicitly?
I would expect the following kind of writers to use that that disclaimer: * The writer expresses poorly considered opinions, loosely holds them. They won't bother defending them. * The writer expresses anodyne opinions that might one day become controversial, they won't bother holding onto them when the rest of society moves on from them. In both cases, I wouldn't bother reading what they had to say. I could open the…
Interesting. It sounds like we value very different kinds of writing.
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#116Awesome, I agree, personal blogs are great. I can't help but notice all the blogs tagged "software" in the list (so far). In fact, I think if there was a filter to exclude software blogs, there might be only a few remaining? I missed out on the whole RSS thing when it was popular. My sense was that it solved the problem of knowing when, among a whole bunch of blogs, a site had new content. Perhaps it exists, I want a…
What you want is RSS, but you don't need to learn how it works at all. Go to feedly.com and create a (free) account. Add sites you want to follow (there's an 'add content' button which lets you search by URL). Done. Feedly will give you a home page with titles and blurbs, and for many sites you can even get the 'reader mode' content without navigating to the site directly. [Not affiliated with feedly, just a happy us…
Have you tried Inoreader? cheaper and better than Feedly. I wasn't too happy with Feedly's UI and found it very confusing.
Re: Curated list of personal blogs
#117Awesome, I agree, personal blogs are great. I can't help but notice all the blogs tagged "software" in the list (so far). In fact, I think if there was a filter to exclude software blogs, there might be only a few remaining? I missed out on the whole RSS thing when it was popular. My sense was that it solved the problem of knowing when, among a whole bunch of blogs, a site had new content. Perhaps it exists, I want a…
Inoreader is the closest to the Google Reader and the free account is really useful. I like the app as well and it can scrap websites that don't even provide RSS feeds, given that they are scrabbable of course.
Agreed. From a very happy Inoreader user!
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#118Relatedly, I link to a lot of personal blogs in my newsletter Interesting Things. They tend to be good quality blogs (otherwise I wouldn't linking to them) so you'd probably find some good stuff there.
Newsletter: https://bengtan.com/interesting-things
Sample issue: https://bengtan.com/newsletter/sample
Re: Curated list of personal blogs
#119I am afraid to blog. I could write about my career and my hobby, but those do not seem to be interesting for others. My opinion may be interesting, but it is risky because something I write may come back to offend others one day, or get me in trouble. One time ago I considered blogging anonymously about the economy but doing so anonymously felt disingenuous.
I came to say similar. I ran a personal blog for a while and toy with the idea of revamping it occasionally. But my objections generally fall into two categories: * For tech-heavy programming/operations how-to or bugfix content, Stack Overflow killed those for me. As a consumer would rather find the bubbled-up "right" answer than wade through Google hits for forums/blogs that may or may not be right. As a writer, I n…
Re: Stack Overflow
I think there is still quite a lot of value for solutions that you could devise because of experience.
For instance something you came up with where you had to piece together multiple SO answers for a particular use case.
For example, my blog has had thousands of hits on a page to set up Active directory login with rails even though that question is on SO because my use case was quite specific.
Or, things that you came up with because you have experience with reading the docs or the source code.
Or even where you were skilled enough to override part of existing library for a better solution.
And finally quirks that you discovered while using specific tools that might be documented but might have side effects that are a bit more arcane.
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#120Earlier quoted context omitted.
What you want is RSS, but you don't need to learn how it works at all. Go to feedly.com and create a (free) account. Add sites you want to follow (there's an 'add content' button which lets you search by URL). Done. Feedly will give you a home page with titles and blurbs, and for many sites you can even get the 'reader mode' content without navigating to the site directly. [Not affiliated with feedly, just a happy us…
I think it’s similar to Feedly but I’m a fan of feedbin.com And for an iOS/Mac client I _highly_ recommend “Reeder”. [0] Have used both for years now. [0] https://reederapp.com
+ 1 for Reeder - great design!