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That's me. I've made everyday slice of life pictures, walking about, since 2006. Biggest source of traffic is probably my mom. I don't care, its my own little corner of the internet.
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…
I regularly have conversations with people that end up with some form of "Let's not belabor this over beers but I'll send you a link to something I wrote. It may be a little bit stale but let me know what you think and we can follow up." Blogging has internal benefits of organizing thoughts or even just being a fun hobby. But it's external validation as well. Sure, writing a book is even more but that's probably 100s…
How is it being received by those people? I can't help but imagine the response being:
"Okay but then what's the point of us sitting here with beers?"
EDIT:
If I was hanging out talking with someone, and have them terminate an interesting conversation topic by plugging their blog article, I'd feel cut off, and might even start to wonder if they're really seeing me as a friend or colleague, or is this networking for them?
It's not the blog reference itself, but rather cutting off a conversation topic this way, that would irk me in such situation.
or rather
“Chop wood, carry water and submit your blog to hacker news using a throwaway account.”
? ;)
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…
I ran a personal blog ~2007-2013, retiring it after one-too-many'a THC-infused evening of personal expression. Several of my posts received 100k+ views, one with 1M+, typically exploring minor technical hacks. A couple posts resulted in minor sales of bespoke hardware adapters, which was a nice "side hustle" for a few years. None of this would ever had made me rich, but it was a neat introduction to information shari…
1M+ is definitely no one
You 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.
I follow a bunch of developers (surprise surprise) and read mostly technical blogs, I've found a lot of developers mix writing blog posts about their personal and family life alongside technical posts. As I've been reading I've found those are some of my favourite posts, as someone who balancing professional and open source development with parenting, I really love hearing about other people's experiences doing the same. It's not a side that I read much about elsewhere outside of personal blogs.
That's a long way of me saying, keep on blogging strangers, someone might be reading!