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I do hope indie blogging makes a comeback. When the only objective of the post is for the author to ‘scream into the void’, it’s refreshing in this day and age.
I gave up on reaching anyone. Now I blog for myself alone. My blog serves only 1 real purpose, which is to build and host my resume, but I enjoy writing anyways.
Getting thoughts out of my head and into writing is very therapeutic, as even though I know it will probably get zero views, the fact it might get views makes me think carefully about how to word and structure it all and how to turn the jumble of chaos in my head into something the general public could comprehend.
Did I miss this magical time where every blogger was getting thousands of hits? Posting on the internet has always been screaming into the void.
https://www.jvt.me/site-in-review/
But I very much still enjoy that some of my posts are "screaming into the void", giving me an outlet
Shameless blog plug - https://www.rxjourney.net/
How AI is making us Dumber. Fully agree. The brain is a muscle like any other, so atrophy is no different. I’ve started playing chess and a few other simple brain exercises.
Yea, solving problems with our brain is more fulfilling
- Hosting a website is not so easy for the average person, even the tech savvy person, specially if you try to learn it now using the way large websites are developed.
- Static site blogs lack interactivity: people can't comment on your blog. You have to post a link to Twitter or HN (here!) and interact with people over there.
- Static site blogs also don't usually let people "subscribe" by email or whatnot, so unless people bookmark your website or follow you on Twitter, they are not going to find your content.
P.S. this is a problem area I'm trying to work on, at least on the technical front.
In the past, you also used to ping a bunch of search engines (eg Technorati) for each new post. Going forward, you should be able to ping AIs but there should be a paywall before they can train on your content. Also, how are AIs going to train for new languages and business rules in the future? People may start to get defensive. It must be worth something.. enter x402. AIs are dumb - they can't really make sense of a…
There are two issues: - Hosting a website is not so easy for the average person, even the tech savvy person, specially if you try to learn it now using the way large websites are developed. - Static site blogs lack interactivity: people can't comment on your blog. You have to post a link to Twitter or HN (here!) and interact with people over there. - Static site blogs also don't usually let people "subscribe" by emai…
- there are now literally thousands of ways to host personal websites, even if we’re not in the LiveJournal age anymore
- there are also several services out there to host comments (many of which I tried over the years before I realized the absence of comments was a feature, not a bug)
- RSS is still a thing. Very much so. My site publishes a full RSS feed, and I have at least as many individual RSS GET requests as for the rest of my site, bar the homepage.
There are two issues: - Hosting a website is not so easy for the average person, even the tech savvy person, specially if you try to learn it now using the way large websites are developed. - Static site blogs lack interactivity: people can't comment on your blog. You have to post a link to Twitter or HN (here!) and interact with people over there. - Static site blogs also don't usually let people "subscribe" by emai…
No comments are normal if no one can comment.
Personally I've learnt that anxiety removal leads to a healthy life.
My website[1] will be hitting 25-years next year (2026 JUN 11). I stopped caring about comments, reactions, SEO, etc. for a while; I just post whatever I want these days.[2] Of course, I like the fact that sites such as Adobe, Wikipedia, WordPress, IBM, the US Patent (mostly via Google), Russian and Chinese Websites, and quite a few other prominent websites maintains their links that points to some of my articles. 1.…