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My long form blog posts about the obscure topics such as old test equipment, obsolete FPGA boards, or my kitchen hood controller board repair will take a couple of weeks before they show up in Google search results but eventually they always do, no SEO required. That’s good enough for me.
2. Platforms. Because of SEO, Google, and the corporate takeover of the internet, the quality of available blogging platforms for most people have declined. Blogger died, Wordpress's new interface is horrible (although the self-hosted one is good for blogging).
3. Social media. Social media exists because technology has isolated us and it provides a superficial substitute to socialization that blogs did not provide. The lack of genuine human connections amongst most people has been exacerbated due to technology and the internet and social media, as horrible as it is, has become the only possible replacement
4. The internet no longer exists to share ideas. Although it can and is used for that purpose, the pathological nature of human interaction and loneliness as discussed in #3 means that most content creation these days is actually about creating platforms for people to talk about themselves. In other words, people on the internet only want to talk about themselves, rather than share ideas which is more in line with blogs.
Can I rant for a sec please? Why do so many data sci/ML engineers use medium? It’s the biggest piece of shit blog platform on the face of the earth.
I guess the only way to know about a quality blog now is being an old timer who knows the blog address from memory and grew along the blog writer. Plus fingers crossed that the blog writer didn't abandon it or realized raw, unfiltered content doesn't put a bread on the table but "10 Ways to Boost Your Productivity" does.
An example of old timer, in Romanian. Content is so good that corporate VPN refuses to allow access due to "sensitive or offensive content". Yeah, not your usual "How to Retire Early in Six Steps": https://www.piticigratis.com/
One of the latest posts is about the "pride" march in Bucharest which somehow became a pro-Palestine exhibition. Not only supporting terrorism but completely irrationally, supporting a bunch of people who would behead and defenestrate the very "proud" people so heartwarmingly supporting them.
Of the consistent crowd that frequents Hacker News, I'm sure at least a few know about such blogs. I wouldn't mind finding about them even in national languages other than English. For German, French and Italian I can mostly read them directly, for the others' there's Google Translate.
> Google became the gatekeeper of the internet They don’t have to be. I’ve started compiling blogs I like into a huge RSS feed. It’s like a Twitter feed but theres no algorithm trying to bait me into engagement. If I’m no longer interested, I just unsubscribe.
https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UC2wdo5v...
is an RSS feed for Cutting Edge Engineering (Capital E mechanical enginering | machinist not software development).
Can I rant for a sec please? Why do so many data sci/ML engineers use medium? It’s the biggest piece of shit blog platform on the face of the earth.
Time happened. Before, when the internet wasn't so established, it'd be easier to gain traction. Blogs cost a large deal of time and effort. The reward used to be a decent amount of traction. These views, engagement created motivation and also would inspire others to hop on. Since things were new, attention was more distributed, even if some blogs recieved a lot of views. It wasn't so overwhelming like today, where t…
> people would rather watch the big ones than small or mid movies More people will be moderately engaged in mass market content. But small creators can get more specific and get much deeper engagement because they’re not watering things down for the lowest common denominator.
You absolutely need to water things down or you won't have an audience.
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I can't seem to load the list :/ But, Hacker News is really good for finding interesting blogs too.
for those who don't know: there are various websites that aggregate "HN Blogs" and provide searching/opml etc. e.g. https://hn-blogs.kronis.dev/ https://dm.hn/