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Where is the go-to place to put blogs these days? It's been probably 15 years since I blogged, and I didn't do much of it then. On blogspot, I think.
JAMstack if you’d prefer to tinker with the blogging system.
But yet I have a blog. Mostly to improve my writing. And to give me an additional reason to explore a new topic once in a while. It's also a nice notebook.
If I get a reader that's good. But building a high profile blog does not have to be the main goal.
> They are your typical run-of-the-mill tutorials that replicate what's written on the official framework/language guide Yep, I'd like to permanently blacklist those idiotic baeldung, w3schools, tutorialspoint, and geeksforgeeks blogspam entries that SEO'ed themselves to the top of every google search I do for anything programming related.
I've found baeldung to be quite helpful actually. What do you not like about it? I understand what you mean though, I don't like the garbage programming-related articles from a lot of these sites you've listed. Even I as a newb developer have seen very poor advice or wrong info on w3schools, for example.
I’m confused, is this not a blog post? It was a good read, you clearly have interesting things to say! I do share a lot of the same things you describe. I would like to blog, mainly for myself to practice writing and keep a record of things, but yeah, it’s difficult. I also find it’s a lot of work to do the research and all, time I maybe rather spend on building things.
> I’m confused, is this not a blog post? It is, but AFAICT the entire blog is just this post. > I also find it’s a lot of work to do the research and all, time I maybe rather spend on building things I found it useful to set a timer and write about small things, e.g. through this post [1] about blocking websites with /etc/hosts. It took about 20 minutes and I can share it with my interested friends. If I were a littl…
A solid start! I'm looking forward to the next one.
> I found it useful to set a timer and write about small things
I should try that. I do enjoy the deep dive into a topic, but then I will never finish/publish something. Also quite perfectionistic which doesn't help, but your strategy sounds interesting, will give that a go.
I like your short story format btw, it's nice, and interesting topics as well. Also looks like you are on a good streak, keep it going!
I have a blog, to write things as a note for myself. It has helped me keep pushing and satisfying my curiosity. I write random things. I don't even have trackers or cookies enabled because I do not care if blog gets any view! So if you are afraid that people will find it boring, then write for yourself. Writing for oneself means you want to be able to write in a way such that you will go back to your note to remind y…
If you're only writing for yourself why make it public? Writing for myself I'd expect lots of internal thoughts I don't really want to share.
> They are your typical run-of-the-mill tutorials that replicate what's written on the official framework/language guide Yep, I'd like to permanently blacklist those idiotic baeldung, w3schools, tutorialspoint, and geeksforgeeks blogspam entries that SEO'ed themselves to the top of every google search I do for anything programming related.
There's an extension for Chrome and Firefox called "uBlacklist" that lets you do exactly this - you can maintain a list of domains that you never want to appear in the results of Google searches that you do.
I completely empathize, and it's why I held off on it for so long. But recently I quit my job and decided to start in order to keep myself accountable. I've been pleasantly surprised by what I've gotten out of it so far and wrote down my thoughts here: https://arunkprasad.com/log/why-i-blog/
I do envy those who can hold themselves accountable and get things done.
> They are your typical run-of-the-mill tutorials that replicate what's written on the official framework/language guide Yep, I'd like to permanently blacklist those idiotic baeldung, w3schools, tutorialspoint, and geeksforgeeks blogspam entries that SEO'ed themselves to the top of every google search I do for anything programming related.
There's an extension for Chrome and Firefox called "uBlacklist" that lets you do exactly this - you can maintain a list of domains that you never want to appear in the results of Google searches that you do.