Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it? • Hacker News Board

I use my blog as a repository for knowledge and to build up more complex ideas. I do occasionally write topical articles, as well as project write ups but primarily it's a kind of published notes system in the vein of Gwern.net and others.

Re: Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?

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Post by hef19898 » Tue, Apr 07, 2020, 2:42 PM UTC

I write about logistics and supply chain topics at greenleaves.io. The first, loose article series about Vendor Managed Inventory and consignment stock is done.

Lately, I'm not as fast in writing new stuff as I wished, so.

Why is it awesome? Having a look at these things from a operational perspective is different from the pure theory. Also, why it obviously is a blog on my company website, sales leads and content marketing are at best a nice side effect. The main purpose is to give people ideas and maybe point them in the right direction.

Why should people read it? Because logistics are an integral, and as is shown now, critical part of our lives. Getting a better idea of how these things works and how people in the field work, can be a good thing.

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Post by vrajat » Tue, Apr 07, 2020, 2:44 PM UTC

I write about technology behind data governance, privacy and security at https://dbadminnews.substack.com/

I started the newsletter because information is either by commercial vendors (and biased) or in research papers that are not easily discoverable.

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Post by astrikos » Tue, Apr 07, 2020, 2:44 PM UTC

https://artres.xyz I blog about art tutorials and resources. I also host interviews with creatives that reach out to me. I have a lot of fun doing it. I also have a design/artist utilities like an idea generator and a random image mood board generator.

PS: great stuff here everybody!

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Post by auston » Tue, Apr 07, 2020, 2:45 PM UTC

https://bitsorbricks.com/writing

It’s not that awesome TBH. You’d read because every now and then I publish something informative, useful or thought provoking. But it’s mostly just info about my Personal life.

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Post by halftheopposite » Tue, Apr 07, 2020, 2:45 PM UTC

ggambetta wrote: post #338

http://gabrielgambetta.com Not a blog, and you probably shouldn't read it. I have a few article series that have become relatively popular: - The multiplayer architecture articles, about Client Side Prediction, Server Reconciliation, and Entity Interpolation: https://gabrielgambetta.com/client-server-game-architecture.... - The A* articles, going over graph search in general and deriving A* in a natural way: https://…

I have read your articles over and over and just keep getting back to them whenever I'm in need of inspiration. They are really well written, have the right pace to follow up and are well illustrated!

The one on client-server game architecture motivated me to start https://github.com/halftheopposite/tosios (still a WIP and a very naive implementation, but working on it).

Thank you for your work!

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Post by tmaly » Tue, Apr 07, 2020, 2:46 PM UTC

https://tysonmaly.com

I don't post as often as I would like, but when I do, I try to provide value.

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Post by AndrewStephens » Tue, Apr 07, 2020, 2:47 PM UTC

dyates wrote: post #423

AndrewStephens wrote: post #405

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That great. I wanted the same sort of formatting for my blog so I started with the Tufte CSS project but I think I like your implementation better. If I was to start again I would probably steal your ideas. I love sidenotes in general but they tend to break down on vertically oriented mobile devices. It took me ages come up with a solution and even then I am not really happy with it.

The best solution I've seen for making sidenotes responsive is to move them into the body text. Examples: http://craftinginterpreters.com/a-map-of-the-territory.html https://www.martigeon.com/textbook-themed-webdesign/ I'm not sure how well this would work for shorter notes though.

Those are both very nicely designed sites.

I ended up doing pretty much the same thing. It doesn't work so well for footnotes that are supposed to be linked to a particular work though.

Here is an example from my site with both footnotes and sidenotes[0]. I style the sidenotes to be distinct from normal paragraphs, which can look great or weird depending on the content.

[0] https://sheep.horse/2017/10/how_you_are_reading_this_page.ht...