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Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?

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Re: Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?

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Post by deadbabe »

ozim wrote: post #349
deadbabe wrote: post #343

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Please no, I don’t want people making blogs just because they want to get a job from it at some point, they should be making blogs because they love to blog. Imagine everyone having some cookie cutter blog, just a standard part of a resume.

Just look how it goes with GitHub everyone has some BS repos and then also they spam projects to get contributions for CVs. Hacktober was the worst but I think it went away because of BS spam contributions. CVE and in general security issues reporting has this issue nowadays where everyone wants to get CVE on their name to have it for CV. It is worst stuff ever.

If you have BS repos but no stars and no followers it doesn’t mean shit.

Re: Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?

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Post by eXpl0it3r »

notepad0x90 wrote: post #92

There are just not enough ways to discover personal blogs. HN is a great source, but you'll notice over time there are always AskHN posts asking something like "What is a site like HN for..", and people trying to build HN clones. Reddit was good for a while for this, but hasn't been for a long time. I'm hoping people rediscover/reinvent slashdot.

Someone has built a RSS feed aggregator specifically for personal websites: https://powrss.com/

Re: Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?

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Post by nicbou »

FrasiertheLion wrote: post #35
ricardobeat wrote: post #2

> 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?

I would argue personal blogs are back and Substack is the medium of choice this time around

Substack has already started enshittifying.

Re: Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?

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Post by davidcollantes »

arjie wrote: post #83
davidcollantes wrote: post #59

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Your blog seems to be broken.

Huh, thank you for letting me know. What did you observe? It's running on a machine in my home office so it's entirely possible something happened for a short duration of time. I just checked in incognito on my cellular network and it seems to be working now. If you get the chance, I'd appreciate it if you'd let me know what went wrong when you visited it. Email in profile if you'd prefer that. Also, I was just readi…

Hi there! I emailed you.

Re: Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?

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Post by ggirelli »

marginalia_nu wrote: post #280
notepad0x90 wrote: post #92

There are just not enough ways to discover personal blogs. HN is a great source, but you'll notice over time there are always AskHN posts asking something like "What is a site like HN for..", and people trying to build HN clones. Reddit was good for a while for this, but hasn't been for a long time. I'm hoping people rediscover/reinvent slashdot.

My search engine has some not-very-obvious tools for exploring the link graph, that will occasionally turn up interesting things. Similarity navigation: https://marginalia-search.com/site/simonwillison.net Backlinks: https://marginalia-search.com/site/simonwillison.net?view=li...

Out of curiosity, I see my website not being well indexed and I wondered whether it is because I include ``` User-agent: * Disallow: / ``` in my robots.txt. What should one add to allow Marginalia to crawl their website?

Re: Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?

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Post by arjie »

davidcollantes wrote: post #394
arjie wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Huh, thank you for letting me know. What did you observe? It's running on a machine in my home office so it's entirely possible something happened for a short duration of time. I just checked in incognito on my cellular network and it seems to be working now. If you get the chance, I'd appreciate it if you'd let me know what went wrong when you visited it. Email in profile if you'd prefer that. Also, I was just readi…

Hi there! I emailed you.

Thank you :)

Re: Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?

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Post by 11mariom »

zelphirkalt wrote: post #229
simonw wrote: post #88

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…

About point 2: I have yet to have a job interview, in which the interviewer has even taken a look at my website. Well, actually I don't know that, of course, but what I want to say is, that none so far showed any sign or indication of having taken a look, and as a consequence also no sign or indication of knowing anything about any of my showcased projects. In 95% of the cases it was just that they want to do their o…

As a senior I'm doing tech part of interviews sometimes. If there is a link to blog/gh/whatever in CV - I always check it. I may not say anything during interview, but I'm looking there.

But… having (not so often updated) blog myself - I will try to change my behavior in future and mention it somehow during interview ;)

Re: Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?

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Post by marginalia_nu »

ggirelli wrote: post #395
marginalia_nu wrote: post #280

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My search engine has some not-very-obvious tools for exploring the link graph, that will occasionally turn up interesting things. Similarity navigation: https://marginalia-search.com/site/simonwillison.net Backlinks: https://marginalia-search.com/site/simonwillison.net?view=li...

Out of curiosity, I see my website not being well indexed and I wondered whether it is because I include ``` User-agent: * Disallow: / ``` in my robots.txt. What should one add to allow Marginalia to crawl their website?

This should work

  User-agent: search.marginalia.nu
  Allow: /

Re: Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?

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Post by bluefirebrand »

baconbrand wrote: post #380
bluefirebrand wrote: post #149

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> If I were to google something and see the AI overview parroting my blog post, sort of almost kind of paraphrasing my words and shoving the link to my actual blog off the phone screen entirely, I think I would personally travel to google headquarters and start swinging a baseball bat. This is the only sensible reaction to the abuses that huge tech companies are dumping onto society. I do agree half heartedly with wh…

The future certainly does look bleak. I think not giving up on normal human expression, connection, and creativity is a good way to combat that.

You have more hope than I do. I view this as futile. I am more and more convinced the only way to combat this capitalist, AI-fueled dystopia being pushed on us is with violence, and I think that is the absolute worse possible thing

I'm not calling for revolution. I don't want violence. I just don't see any real way forward for humanity in a post AI world. I think this is one of the worst things that we could have ever invented

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