I blog about things I mess up on but learned something about. That way, I feel less bad messing up and if someone else has the same idea, they can learn too
Why blog if nobody reads it?
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Re: Why blog if nobody reads it?
#232You can also use it to write your best responses to topics so that you can just link to it instead of writing a custom response every time.
Re: Why blog if nobody reads it?
#233I consider blogging, in this modern internet area where most Google search end up with optimized SEO or LLM garbage, to be the right thing to do.
Provide something from one human to the other, just like i would help someone lost in the street and not try to sell him a map, is just the right thing to do.
It doesn't have to make me popular, or benefit me in the slightest way.
If one was to do it only for their own benefit, I'm not sure blogging would be worth it. Other way are either more efficient or just as good but less time consuming. X or Twitter for instance has better reach than a blog.
Re: Why blog if nobody reads it?
#234You can also write txt files to blog, you don't even have to worry about formatting, and search engines are able to generate titles and descriptions for you (source: I got a txt file somewhat popular on hn a few years ago, and google decided to index it very quickly, and generate a title & a small description). 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…
is the bash script you use to generate the website public?
i like this minimal fast approach to blogging (also loves bash scripts).
Re: Why blog if nobody reads it?
#235You can also write txt files to blog, you don't even have to worry about formatting, and search engines are able to generate titles and descriptions for you (source: I got a txt file somewhat popular on hn a few years ago, and google decided to index it very quickly, and generate a title & a small description). 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…
is the bash script you use to generate the website public? i like this minimal fast approach to blogging (also loves bash scripts).
Yes, although no link points to it :)
Here's the file:
https://misc.l3m.in/txt/createfile.sh
I use it like this:
./createfile.sh file_name # without the extension!
(the three first bytes the bash script write to the txt file is the BOM, used by the browser to know that it's dealing with utf-8 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark)
Re: Why blog if nobody reads it?
#236I've been wanting to blog, but I never do it. One of the reasons (excuses) is that I don't know where to blog. Is it better to host your own page, use some newsletter service such as substack, or just open a blog in any blogging plaform?
Re: Why blog if nobody reads it?
#237> if nobody reads it?
Blog especially if no one reads it so that can learn how to blog so that people will read it!
"What a gift to give us to see ourselves as others see us?" -- Robert Burns.
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Re: Why blog if nobody reads it?
#239do not lie to yourself. just Eject Google (the monolith of oppression erected by the fools who use it) into the Sun.
the globalized space of the internet is detrimental to cultures, so it needs to be beheaded. local search engines for every country!
Re: Why blog if nobody reads it?
#240You can also write txt files to blog, you don't even have to worry about formatting, and search engines are able to generate titles and descriptions for you (source: I got a txt file somewhat popular on hn a few years ago, and google decided to index it very quickly, and generate a title & a small description). 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…
That's great. Really reduces the friction and yak-shaving - no need to mess about with layouts or colour schemes or fonts.