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Re: Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?

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I write about cryptography, mostly about resources that I think are missing. If I’m trying to learn something new and nobody has written a good explanation of it then I’ll write it! https://www.cryptologie.net Some examples of articles I've written: * A 4-part series on hash-based signatures https://www.cryptologie.net/article/306/hash-based-signature... * ASN.1 vs DER vs PEM vs x509 vs PKCS#7 vs .... https://www.cry…

I love your blog, David!

Thanks :D

Re: Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?

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Great thread! I sometimes wish there was a variant of Hacker News that only had blog posts written by individuals. Mine is https://tkainrad.dev I think you should read my blog because I invest a lot of effort into my posts. Not sure why I do that, as there is no reward except growing Google Analytics numbers. My three most successful articles have been - Managing my personal knowledge base: https://tkainrad.dev/posts…

> I sometimes wish there was a variant of Hacker News that only had blog posts written by individuals. I’ve been thinking about the same thing. Something styled along the likes of HN (Eg super minimal), but focussed on technical/HN-crowd topics and every post on the front page is a blog post, and every user profile shows all those user’s posts. Akin to Medium or Wordpress.com but minimal and very technical. Of course…

There's dev.to, which is like Medium for tech writers.

Re: Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?

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I've only started posting regularly more often recently, at https://darrendevitt.com/. I'll be using it to document a new app I'm building in the Knowledge Base space.

After a new post I publish the same post to Medium, as the possibility of attracting new readers there is greater, but there's often a time lag there as you wait for a publication to pick it up or not.

Re: Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?

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https://danielonsecurity.com/ - I am a penetration tester and write about security obviously. In order to encourage IPv6 usage, I disabled IPv4 for the main domain, but since many have complained they cannot reach my blog, I decided to create an ugly subdomain for IPv4: https://myinternetprovidersuckssoihavetouseipv4.danielonsecu...

I genuinely appreciate the DNS snark.

Re: Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?

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https://opensourceweekly.org/#past-issues

As you guessed it, I publish a weekly post about open source.

In 2018 only, GitHub had over 100 000 000 repositories, so I'm here to curate this and find the hidden gems.

I try to publish only projects that I think can have a big / positive impact on the world .

Re: Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?

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post #123

Great thread! I sometimes wish there was a variant of Hacker News that only had blog posts written by individuals. Mine is https://tkainrad.dev I think you should read my blog because I invest a lot of effort into my posts. Not sure why I do that, as there is no reward except growing Google Analytics numbers. My three most successful articles have been - Managing my personal knowledge base: https://tkainrad.dev/posts…

> I sometimes wish there was a variant of Hacker News that only had blog posts written by individuals I agree I tried to do it here : http://luap.info:4000/links Basically I'm taking all the links published into HN and I'm filtering the domains which are news domains or appear too frequently, but that is still a lot of links, so I'm not calling it a success yet

That's cool! At some point, I myself thought about making a clone of HN that just filters out everything that is not a blog post. However, I couldn't come up with a solid filter criteria.

I agree that your method is not quite there yet, still a lot of large domains (airbnb.com, spiegel.de, spectator.co,...), but you started and that is already more than I ever did ;)

I would suggest including the HN metadata, such as the number of upvotes and comments. These are, in combination with the title, important criteria for me whether I click on something or not.

Re: Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I sometimes wish there was a variant of Hacker News that only had blog posts written by individuals. I’ve been thinking about the same thing. Something styled along the likes of HN (Eg super minimal), but focussed on technical/HN-crowd topics and every post on the front page is a blog post, and every user profile shows all those user’s posts. Akin to Medium or Wordpress.com but minimal and very technical. Of course…

There's dev.to, which is like Medium for tech writers.

For me, part of the excitement is to see personal blog sites.

So anything like Medium, dev.to, InfoQ, DZone, etc. is not really what I was getting at. It would have to be a link aggregator like HN that either has an army of editors, a disciplined community that flags invalid posts, or a technical way to filter for personal blogs.

Re: Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?

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https://opensourceweekly.org/#past-issues As you guessed it, I publish a weekly post about open source. In 2018 only, GitHub had over 100 000 000 repositories, so I'm here to curate this and find the hidden gems. I try to publish only projects that I think can have a big / positive impact on the world .

Now I'm curious about what you think of some of my projects.

https://github.com/soatok/faq-off :3

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