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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> 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. Oh boy, do I have a blog post for you (and anyone who wants to build such a thing)! (Sadly it's on Medium, but still...) https://medium.com/@soatok/defeating-coordinated-inauthentic...

Theres always a relevent xkcd comic :)

https://xkcd.com/810/

Good post! I enjoy the idea of whitelisting for positive consensus rather then trying to black list bad actors

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

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Poseur to Composer: https://poseurtocomposer.postach.io/

I learn how to play piano and music theory from scratch. Before I played bass guitar in a nu metal band but didn't know how to read music. I essentially "faked it".

There's also musings on what musicianship, music and art is. Oh, and I'm creating a brand new music genre: hymns + djent metal = Dhymn.

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

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https://jmmv.dev/

This is my personal blog with a bit over 15 years of history by now :-)

I blog about technical stuff primarily, including my open source work in projects like NetBSD, interesting/weird things about programming languages and Unix systems, opinions on coding, and lately even things I have done at work in the Bazel space.

Thanks for reading!

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

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https://sander.saares.eu/ on media streaming and DRM.

DRM is often seen as some sort of dark art. A lot of this comes from the proprietary nature of it, with NDAs on every corner and technology licensing processes that require months of effort to get access to even the basic documentation.

Over the past decade, ever-increasing standardization in the media industry has opened up DRM to a great degree, though much remains in the proprietary domain for legacy reasons. Even though standardization has helped a great deal, it is hard to find human-readable information about DRM. ISO/IEC 23001-7:2016 does not make for easy bedtime reading!

I have worked in the field for 12 years and was recently motivated to share my knowledge and remove some of the unwarranted mystery from the field. I am currently writing up a new series of articles, to be published starting May, opening up the topic of DRM for a wider audience. You will find them at my website, though right now there are only a few old articles from ancient history there.

If you make solutions that aim to provide Hollywood grade content or just think this topic sounds interesting, this upcoming series might be a good introduction to the necessary content security universe for you. I might also post other digital media topics there from time to time.

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

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https://blog.adrianistan.eu

It's my Spanish blog about Prolog, Rust and Python mainly. I thought about opening a new one in English, to reach a more broad audience, but I will not write in two blogs at the same time and the Spanish blog maybe has more relevance due to the lack of blogs like mine in Spanish.

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

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https://wwww.comeet.me/blog

Our blog is mainly about productivity and effectiveness around meetings. We all meet a lot (maybe too much), so we post about best practices, meeting types (silent, walking, customers, team), about it's impact, when tey are needed, etc.

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

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Mine is https://themihirchronicles.com/ and purposed to take notes that I can share with others.

* On Product Management: https://themihirchronicles.com/blog/on-product-management

* On Asking Questions: https://themihirchronicles.com/blog/on-asking-questions

* On Deliberate Practice: https://themihirchronicles.com/blog/on-deliberate-practice

* On Writing Well: https://themihirchronicles.com/blog/on-writing-well

* On Rhetorical Devices: https://themihirchronicles.com/blog/on-rhetorical-devices

* On Becoming A Craftsman: https://themihirchronicles.com/blog/on-becoming-craftsman

* On Tribes & Ideologies https://themihirchronicles.com/blog/on-tribes-ideologies:

* On Independent Thinking: https://themihirchronicles.com/blog/on-independent-thinking

I also share my book summaries here https://themihirchronicles.com/bookshelf.

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

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post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And published date too, please!

If I remember correctly then patio11 argued strongly against adding anything that dates your posts and write "evergreen content" instead. From a reader perspective I never understood this: I much prefer if there is a date right at the top, under the headline. From a user perspective I also don't like to see ads, I don't like to be asked to sign up for a newsletter or to subscribe to a Youtube channel but I guess it's…

I guess it depends on what you're writing about: tech might benefit more from a date than philosophy. I'm sure he's written multiple times about this, but patio11 has a thread you might be referring to here https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1234141833661440001 .
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