Have a personal web site

Post by bookofjoe » Wed, May 01, 2019, 11:49 PM UTC

kaycebasques wrote: post #323

sl1ck731 wrote: post #280

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I tried doing what the OP described, become some interesting blogger person, but threw in a 2 or 3 line article about some mundane error I had with a tool one day mixed in with all the other wordfluff. Surprisingly the error code drew a ton of traffic compared to anything interesting I could have possibly thought about writing.

You stumbled upon a technical writing best practice. Always include the exact error code and message in documentation because people often search for that exact string.

Post by raindropm » Sat, May 04, 2019, 3:35 AM UTC

Post by thjan » Thu, May 09, 2019, 2:41 PM UTC

Spare_account wrote: post #166

thjan wrote: post #111

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How did you achieve that and what about sites like archive.org? Also, have you considered going a "middle path" where you are searchable but no info comes up besides your name and face? With how things seem to be evolving I lean torwards a "grey man" strategy because some day you will be suspicious by not being searchable online. At least that's what I kinda fear.

I'm lucky that I share a first and last name with someone who is a successful Social Media influencer, also with a professional photographer, a journalist and and an amateur model (Haha, I wonder if that is enough for an Internet detective to work out my name!). This helps because they all have very searchable content online. I've tried to strike a balance between anonymity and retaining 'placeholder' accounts with m…