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I host both my gamedev tutorials and web game portal websites with cloudflare pages and so far they're pretty decent:
Here are some reasons to start a personal blog: 1. It's a great way to learn. Teaching something to someone else has always been the best learning tool, and writing about something with an audience in mind is an effective way to capture some of that value. 2. It can be a big boost in job hunting. As a hiring manager two of the most important questions I have about a potential candidate are: Can they code? Can they co…
My biggest problem so far is with cost. I dont like recurring fees. I could pay a one-time fee for say 100 pages and last an eternality ( or 50 years or something ). I also dont like subscription, and it has nothing to do with subscription fatigue, it is just the way I manage my money since before Youtube or Netflix took off. And so far I haven't seen any viable options. And right now I use HN comments as more like a…
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AI scrapes niche blogs, Google deranks or spam drowns them out. It's really not a good time to be starting niche blogs.
The most depressing thing about AI these days is seeing people cite it as a reason NOT to create useful content! Feels very nihilistic.
More depressing than the realization how few people are able to evaluate the quality of something?
More depressing than the number of people who proudly advocate for having pride in plagiarism?
More depressing than the number of people who unwittingly use genai as an excuse to DoS sites, individuals, organic content ranking? (Each being their own completely diff method)
> But with the revival of personal blogs well underway Is it? I haven't seen anyone in my circle return to blogging, nor kids of this generation. Discoverability is going to be a massive problem, since search engines are dead. Maybe word-of-mouth through social media is enough?
Here's a starting point https://peopleandblogs.com/
Why bother. When you publish something good, AI will fetch it in 0.01 seconds from you..
I read and enjoy content from people who want to share something.
There is no chance I'll read anything within 0.01s of it being posted, but there is a chance I'll find it eventually. So if the first thing to read the content is all that matters, or if having complete exclusive control so that only the people you like can read it, and importantly only in the way that you decided they should read it.
Then don't bother?
But if you want to create something of value for someone else, and the exact time it takes them to find it, or the browser they use isn't actually important. Seems like it's still a good time to write stuff. Maybe even better, to resist AI content drowning out new stuff.
Someone mentions bearblog, medium, substack, etc for hosting blogs but my favorite web stack to run blogs or any content heavy websites nowadays is just https://astro.build/ plus cloudflare pages, deno deploy, netlify, vercel or any cloud provider with edge caching. I host both my gamedev tutorials and web game portal websites with cloudflare pages and so far they're pretty decent: - https://raizensoft.com/tutorials/…
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If you blog I think it's really important to develop a habit of linking to other people's blogs. That's how blog discovery used to work back in the 200xs and it can still work effectively today.
Everyday we get a little closer to web rings and I'm here for it
I've been curating some of the last few personal blogs in one place for a couple years now ( http://boredreading.com ). It always makes me happy to see more people bring back blogging. I hate that everything is on platforms like substack, and would much rather see a million wordpress or ghost installs.
The top 25% is the nav bar, ok, maybe that's reasonable? the next 25% is a "new here", please join upsell. The next 20% is another upsell, please give me your email so I can spam you. The bottom 35% is tags, and the bottom 25% is finally links... but they're mostly covered by another upsell. Holy shit!
And to top it all off, even with uBo enable there's a full sceen popup/modal add dimming the whole page, begging me to let them help me with my overwhelming debt.
WTF is wrong with people who do this stuff?!
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I use GitHub Pages for personal blogs. Connect it with your personal domain name in case later you want to run it somewhere else.
Given the tiny cost of running a blog, especially if you have a domain name, is it worth the saving? Its not even much work if you use a static site builder.
I have been blogging since 2003. My reasons,learning, and rewards and why I still blog: - It is a personal blog = 1st audience is me. Best self-improvement investment I made - I blog for my present self: I blog about what I read, what I'm thinking about a topic, what I learned etc. But also I blog for my future self: the trends I'm noticing, how I should prepare and I am preparing - Since it is a personal blog, somet…