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Re: Curated list of personal blogs

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Post by 1000mH »

JKCalhoun wrote: post #5

Awesome, I agree, personal blogs are great. I can't help but notice all the blogs tagged "software" in the list (so far). In fact, I think if there was a filter to exclude software blogs, there might be only a few remaining? I missed out on the whole RSS thing when it was popular. My sense was that it solved the problem of knowing when, among a whole bunch of blogs, a site had new content. Perhaps it exists, I want a…

I had similar wants as you and settled on the web extension fraidyc.at

I'm satisfied so far.

Re: Curated list of personal blogs

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Post by FalconSensei »

solarengineer wrote: post #6
Ajay-p wrote: post #3

I am afraid to blog. I could write about my career and my hobby, but those do not seem to be interesting for others. My opinion may be interesting, but it is risky because something I write may come back to offend others one day, or get me in trouble. One time ago I considered blogging anonymously about the economy but doing so anonymously felt disingenuous.

You could consider adding the sentence to your blog post: “I have written the above based on my present understanding, experience and maturity. As these improve over time, hopefully my opinions would improve too!”

considering people pick tweets from 10 years ago out-of-context (and out of the thread they are part of), I don't see much benefit

Re: Curated list of personal blogs

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Post by huydotnet »

I got the same problem, that I want to collect all the blog posts of friends in my circle, so I built a curated blog engine for my developer communiy [1], it works by collecting blog posts from RSS feeds of the members and display them in one place like a normal blog [2]. You can use this as your personal RSS reader too!

[1] https://github.com/webuild-community/federated-blog [2] https://read.webuild.community

Re: Curated list of personal blogs

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Post by ghaff »

lbriner wrote: post #14
valdect wrote: post #2

Hi, nowadays blogging is becoming less and less popular and people use twitter as their personal blog. This site is created to provide curated list of fine blogs, provided with their tags,feed links and hackernews page. The site is hosted on github and you can contribute to it if you want.

Unfortunately my code examples are not leet enough to fit in a Tweet. I dislike medium but I also worry that if too many people are reinventing their blog platform, aren't we risking low quality non-scrapable content? Is there a blogging platform that you just have to fill in the blanks and get RSS, accessible content with perhaps a very basic gui and code editor for posts?

Google's Blogger still works pretty well for me although I don't use it a lot these days. (Most of my professional writing is published on platforms with editors and I sort of got out of writing random more personal musings--yes, probably in part because Twitter.)

I even fired up a hosted Wordpress site a few years ago but then never did much with it so I shut it down.

Re: Curated list of personal blogs

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Post by JKCalhoun »

cubano wrote: post #28
JKCalhoun wrote: post #5

Awesome, I agree, personal blogs are great. I can't help but notice all the blogs tagged "software" in the list (so far). In fact, I think if there was a filter to exclude software blogs, there might be only a few remaining? I missed out on the whole RSS thing when it was popular. My sense was that it solved the problem of knowing when, among a whole bunch of blogs, a site had new content. Perhaps it exists, I want a…

Sounds pretty close to RSS to me...what do you see as the difference between what you envision and existing RSS?

I honestly don't understand, haven't learned RSS.

Re: Curated list of personal blogs

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY »

polote wrote: post #24
ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #21

I support the effort, but I have seen these things generally devolve, fairly rapidly, once people figure out how to game the system. For myself, I've done a ton of writing[0], but my work seems to be too long-form for most. I don't really go out of my way to promote it. I basically have them up, so I can reference them in the odd comment. Not the end of the world. I generally write for my own benefit; not for others.…

If you don't promote it, how do you want people to discover it ? Long post do well on HN comparatively with other boards. [1] is exactly the kind of post that I include in my newsletter, but if it is not posted on HN, I can't see it (there is a typo in the link you posted) [1] https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/the-road-most-travel...

I really don't mind if people find my stuff (thanks for the heads-up and the comment. It's fixed).

It's just that it is so crazy, with ego and money to be made. I really have neither interest, so I don't have the energy or the inclination to do much to promote.

I spend most of my time actively writing software, and my postings are occasional "breaks," where I spend a couple of days, writing about something. It gives me a chance to "regroup," and, sometimes, explaining stuff helps me to understand it, myself, better.

I agree that longform blogs are important and good, but it has been my experience that very few people are actually interested in them.

For example, I will sometimes write a comment (you may have noticed that my comments tend to be long), and a reply is made, highlighting one sentence; usually context-free, and adding some kind of "slap."

Often the "slap" is someone saying that I am not talking about the very thing that most of the comment was about. They didn't even bother to read the whole comment. What makes me think they would read one of my long-ass screeds?

These Romans are crazy.

https://memegenerator.net/img/images/13250908.jpg

Re: Curated list of personal blogs

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Post by lolinder »

tendstofortytwo wrote: post #20
Ajay-p wrote: post #3

I am afraid to blog. I could write about my career and my hobby, but those do not seem to be interesting for others. My opinion may be interesting, but it is risky because something I write may come back to offend others one day, or get me in trouble. One time ago I considered blogging anonymously about the economy but doing so anonymously felt disingenuous.

I think it's valuable to just blog for your own sake as well. It gets you into a habit of putting your thoughts into words, which in my experience helps my understanding of the topic. About offending people - think of it as an opportunity to learn. You put your opinions out there, and if someone points out a flaw in your thought process, you try to see where you went wrong. If you were wrong, you get to make another…

> If you weren't wrong... well, there are trolls on the internet everywhere, you just learn to ignore them.

Until you end up being the target of an internet mob bent on harassing you and everyone associated with you until someone breaks.

This is probably a lot rarer than headlines make it seem, but I share OP's anxiety about blogging about anything even tangentially related to politics.

Re: Curated list of personal blogs

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Post by BeetleB »

habibur wrote: post #30
Ajay-p wrote: post #3

I am afraid to blog. I could write about my career and my hobby, but those do not seem to be interesting for others. My opinion may be interesting, but it is risky because something I write may come back to offend others one day, or get me in trouble. One time ago I considered blogging anonymously about the economy but doing so anonymously felt disingenuous.

Every genius in all ages held some weird view all their lifetime, even by modern standards. But history forgets those, and remembers their contributions for the good.

History forgets most of the good ones too. We just remember some outliers.

I think his concern is it affecting job prospects, etc. Being recognized after one dies is not appealing to him :-)

(I often look at biographies, and being recognized only years after death is quite common).

Re: Curated list of personal blogs

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Post by haswell »

habibur wrote: post #30
Ajay-p wrote: post #3

I am afraid to blog. I could write about my career and my hobby, but those do not seem to be interesting for others. My opinion may be interesting, but it is risky because something I write may come back to offend others one day, or get me in trouble. One time ago I considered blogging anonymously about the economy but doing so anonymously felt disingenuous.

Every genius in all ages held some weird view all their lifetime, even by modern standards. But history forgets those, and remembers their contributions for the good.

Historically I think you’re mostly correct.

The question that I don’t think we have an answer to (but we see some worrisome trends) is: does this hold up in an era where those odd beliefs aren’t just a footnote somewhere but instead tightly bound to ones identity for the rest of eternity?

Basically, how does social media and “cancel culture” change things, or does it?

Re: Curated list of personal blogs

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Post by ghaff »

Ajay-p wrote: post #3

I am afraid to blog. I could write about my career and my hobby, but those do not seem to be interesting for others. My opinion may be interesting, but it is risky because something I write may come back to offend others one day, or get me in trouble. One time ago I considered blogging anonymously about the economy but doing so anonymously felt disingenuous.

Absolutely nothing wrong with anonymous/pseudonymous blogs/Twitter/etc.

When your blog is part of your in real life public presence, you obviously don't want to do that. And I started blogging before many of today's concerns became as big a deal. But, if I were starting a blog today that was divorced from my professional identity, I'd seriously consider not connecting it to real life me--especially if I regularly blogged about political issues (which I don't).

There's a long history of people writing under pseudonyms. If someone really cares they might be able to connect the dots (and many times so if they're a government) but that's not the attack scenario for most people.

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