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Re: Why blog if nobody reads it?

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Post by greazy »

genezeta wrote: post #291
greazy wrote: post #289

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've also started writing sad and depressing stuff just for me. It's helped my mental health tremendously. I've only just started. How long have you been writing and do you publish it online?

I'm glad it helps you :) The things I write currently about, it's been a couple of years I guess. I do put it up on my blog, yes. Not all of it, and as I said I do delete some after a while. In general I do consider anything I write as temporary. Deleting things it's also part of the process or something.

> Deleting things it's also part of the process or something.

Can you explain a bit further? How's it helpful to delete your writing? I never considered writing and deleting.

Re: Why blog if nobody reads it?

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Post by genezeta »

greazy wrote: post #361
genezeta wrote: post #291

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm glad it helps you :) The things I write currently about, it's been a couple of years I guess. I do put it up on my blog, yes. Not all of it, and as I said I do delete some after a while. In general I do consider anything I write as temporary. Deleting things it's also part of the process or something.

> Deleting things it's also part of the process or something. Can you explain a bit further? How's it helpful to delete your writing? I never considered writing and deleting.

Ah... Well, it's just what I do.

All things are temporary. What I write at a certain moment may be good to do at that moment. And it's sometimes good to remember it afterwards. But sometimes it may also be good to just let it go and not cling to that memory or sentiment.

Some stuff stays. Some goes away. In my case, a lot of it goes away, but of course it doesn't have to be that way for anyone else. However I still think it's good to sometimes go back and clean up, deleting things that are no longer helpful to keep.

Re: Why blog if nobody reads it?

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Post by greazy »

genezeta wrote: post #362
greazy wrote: post #361

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Deleting things it's also part of the process or something. Can you explain a bit further? How's it helpful to delete your writing? I never considered writing and deleting.

Ah... Well, it's just what I do. All things are temporary. What I write at a certain moment may be good to do at that moment. And it's sometimes good to remember it afterwards. But sometimes it may also be good to just let it go and not cling to that memory or sentiment. Some stuff stays. Some goes away. In my case , a lot of it goes away, but of course it doesn't have to be that way for anyone else. However I still…

Thank you for describing your process. It's an interesting concept. As I've just started writing, and discovered it's therapeutic effects, it feels alien to delete the thing that has helped. But i can see how it's therapeutic.

If you feel comfortable, I'd love to read your blog. Or we go off on our merry way and hopefully run into each other again.

Re: Why blog if nobody reads it?

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Post by genezeta »

greazy wrote: post #363
genezeta wrote: post #362

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ah... Well, it's just what I do. All things are temporary. What I write at a certain moment may be good to do at that moment. And it's sometimes good to remember it afterwards. But sometimes it may also be good to just let it go and not cling to that memory or sentiment. Some stuff stays. Some goes away. In my case , a lot of it goes away, but of course it doesn't have to be that way for anyone else. However I still…

Thank you for describing your process. It's an interesting concept. As I've just started writing, and discovered it's therapeutic effects, it feels alien to delete the thing that has helped. But i can see how it's therapeutic. If you feel comfortable, I'd love to read your blog. Or we go off on our merry way and hopefully run into each other again.

Thanks but I think I'd prefer not to share it.

Re: Why blog if nobody reads it?

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Post by wvh »

Vilian wrote: post #337
wvh wrote: post #307

Surface area. Networking. Openness to those that for whatever reason click and might become friends, business associates and romantic partners. Few will click, but those few will have shown at least some interest in you and what you do. It took divorce and loneliness for me to understand the concept of surface area, to exist, to not be invisible and anonymous, but create tiny opportunities for connection. It's pretty…

I would love to read a true romance that started from a obscure blog

"That's my kink" is all I can think of right now...

Re: Why blog if nobody reads it?

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Post by greazy »

genezeta wrote: post #365
greazy wrote: post #363

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you for describing your process. It's an interesting concept. As I've just started writing, and discovered it's therapeutic effects, it feels alien to delete the thing that has helped. But i can see how it's therapeutic. If you feel comfortable, I'd love to read your blog. Or we go off on our merry way and hopefully run into each other again.

Thanks but I think I'd prefer not to share it.

I understand. See you on the interwebs :)

Re: Why blog if nobody reads it?

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Post by TachyonicBytes »

dwood_dev wrote: post #50

I generally blog about things that took a week+ of research and I want to save some other poor bastard the pain of what I had to piece together. This is especially useful because link-rot means that resources I was able to uncover might not be available in the future. A few years ago I did a massive amount of research into internals of old unixes for data recovery and maintenance of said systems in the modern era(mac…

I use Zotero[1] as a personal web archiver. It downloads the page locally, placing most of the resources inside a single html file (pictures become base64 encoded pngs, for example). I find it the best way to have the content available offline and also to be able to reference it easily, seeing as it is a citation manager first.

[1] https://www.zotero.org/

Re: Why blog if nobody reads it?

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Post by Schwolop »

tomjuggler wrote: post #195

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

That is hilarious. HackerNews was also the source of my blog's highest day of traffic. IIRC I quit a job and wrote about it and somehow a lot of people read it.

I often feel I _should_ blog more, but then I don't. And every now and again I go and read something I wrote ten years ago and feel a little embarrassed by my past self. But every so often I read something that makes me feel that I _did_ know a few things, or did some cool things, and even if no one else ever read about them it made me feel better ten years in the future and _that_ alone is worth it.

Also, my name is Tom and I'm also a juggler. Weird coincidence to be replying to your username... :-)

Re: Why blog if nobody reads it?

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Post by chistev »

JTyQZSnP3cQGa8B wrote: post #7
chistev wrote: post #2

Because writing is fun. Check out my personal blog https://rxjourney.com.ng If you like it and you're feeling extra generous, you can leave a donation.

Change that Twitter account. Do you have a RSS feed? How can I donate? Last but not least, your blog is unusable without JS. The posts are not links for some reason, why would you make such a paywall?

I just added an RSS feed -

https://rxjourneyserver.pythonanywhere.com/rss_feed/rss/

I have fixed the javascript issue with the links

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