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I treat my blog as a sort of extended dating profile or resume. It's extended in both scope and completeness, attracting all sorts of people for all sorts of purposes, and telling them much more about me than a mere bio. It's a search query for other interesting people, as someone else put it.
Writing it to my public blog improves my writing skills and sometimes helps others with the same problem which is a great plus.
Here I have fun with HTML/CSS, can let the graphic designer within me run amok and will try to post semi-regularly about some of my hobbies: computing (mainly programming) and art (music, films, novels).
This website exists for a few reasons, others than those listed in the landing page:
* I wanted to make a generator in Common Lisp during my vacations (I had a very crude one in sh a long time ago) so I did.
* I dislike the modern Web full of Jabbascript, so I thought I'd explore the limits of static HTML5/CSS3. I'm not fully there on that point, but still pretty proud of the file explorer sidebar thingy.
* Like a lot of millennials, I still remember a web that wasn't exclusively a one-way street carrying lackluster content from corporations and "actors" to clueless consumers. So I consider it a pretty important mission to do what I can to help, even if it's just a little blog full of nothing.I blog because once a post of mine made the front page of HN and you guys crashed my VPS with traffic for 2 days straight - including my work site hosted on the same server. I will cherish that moment of excitement and terror for the rest of my days
I document technical things on my blog and hardly anyone reads it. But later on when I need that thing again, I just go there and I have the perfect documentation available for the topic (it's perfect since I wrote it hahaha).
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I disagree. I write differently when I anticipate an audience (even if they never come). Maybe parallel: I notice when, for example, I edit videos in my own world I have a very different take on the edit when I am showing it to someone for the first time. Thinking to myself: "Now as I watch someone else watching it, I am become aware that this scene goes on a bit too long. This cut is a little abrupt, disorienting."…
> I write differently when I anticipate an audience (even if they never come). Is that good, though? If the product is purely for self-consumption, is the audience-anticipating version necessarily the better version? And at what point, after how many unread blog posts, do you rationally stop anticipating an audience?
Writing on a blog is a very inexpensive way to establish your credibility about different subjects. This pays off later down the line when you can link people to things you've written in the past. Credibility is a very valuable commodity. It's worth investing in ways to build more of it. Don't assume people will stumble across your content (though they will eventually via Google). Actively send links to people who yo…
Agreed, after a year or two, blogs become your experience logs to prove experience and credibility once the landscape is killed by GenAI slops and SEO scams. Anyone can generate a big portfolio of projects these days(be it graphics, video, software, writing etc) but blog posts from 2023 and before are proof and undeniable.
I posted a txt "blog" post just a few hours ago just here: https://misc.l3m.in/txt/raw_txt.txt
And here's a list of all the blog posts: https://misc.l3m.in/txt/