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There are two issues: - Hosting a website is not so easy for the average person, even the tech savvy person, specially if you try to learn it now using the way large websites are developed. - Static site blogs lack interactivity: people can't comment on your blog. You have to post a link to Twitter or HN (here!) and interact with people over there. - Static site blogs also don't usually let people "subscribe" by emai…
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Here's a runaway feedback loop: if you put your blog behind a paywall for AIs, there's an army of spammers, narcissists, and marketers who would be more that happy to substitute for you in the training set for free. Commodification leads to a race to the bottom.
And if that puts a nail in the coffin of LLMs then I'm all for it.
Like many here, I too blog for the mental exercise of composing, the human desire to express, and a faith that posting to the public web is some how intrinsically worthy. On the first point I've found I get a lot of benefit from the posts I never even publish as I'll keep chewing over subjects which I'm mentally composing a post about and gain a lot of personal clarity in the process. One thing I've wondered though (…
> Here's a thought experiment: Would you feel good if someone read your blog and learned something from it? Probably yes. Would you feel good if they passed along something they learned to others, likely in their own words? Probably yes. What if they couldn't recall, or didn't choose to reference where they saw it? Probably still yes, although (speaking personally) my ego would probably prefer they did credit. What i…
Like many here, I too blog for the mental exercise of composing, the human desire to express, and a faith that posting to the public web is some how intrinsically worthy. On the first point I've found I get a lot of benefit from the posts I never even publish as I'll keep chewing over subjects which I'm mentally composing a post about and gain a lot of personal clarity in the process. One thing I've wondered though (…
I gave up on reaching anyone. Now I blog for myself alone. My blog serves only 1 real purpose, which is to build and host my resume, but I enjoy writing anyways.
I’ve blogged on and off since the late 90s when it was more “update the /writings.html file with a new addition every now and then” and I learned pretty early that I don’t actually care if anyone reads the stuff I like, I just like the act of writing. Getting thoughts out of my head and into writing is very therapeutic, as even though I know it will probably get zero views, the fact it might get views makes me think…
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Wow, thanks for link to Paged Out. Any ideas how to discover any more tech focused zines? We have a zine culture in UK but afaik it’s more culture / music focused (v happy to be wrong here)
From yesterday's PO! thread [1] [2]: - https://phrack.org/ - https://tmpout.sh/ - https://www.hugi.scene.org/ - https://lainzine.org/archive - https://inteltechniques.com/magazine.html - https://n-o-d-e.net/zine/ - https://increment.com/issues/ - https://pocorgtfo.hacke.rs/ Not all of them are active though. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46134188 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46130469
I too have been throwing messages in bottles into a silent sea for a pretty long time, but I think I'm okay with that. It doesn't help if you also have difficulty adhering to quintessential blog SEO best practices. 1. Consistent theme - A diverse set of interests and a lethal dose of ADD make this virtually impossible 2. Consistent updates - My articles tend to be rather unusual, and I'll often combine them with cust…
I just skimmed but looks like exactly the content I love. It's a shame search engines are so narrow minded and such content so hard to discover.
There are two issues: - Hosting a website is not so easy for the average person, even the tech savvy person, specially if you try to learn it now using the way large websites are developed. - Static site blogs lack interactivity: people can't comment on your blog. You have to post a link to Twitter or HN (here!) and interact with people over there. - Static site blogs also don't usually let people "subscribe" by emai…
This is not really an issue at all, more like a feature. Posts that provoke discussion or are otherwise interesting get HN discussions. Posts that don't get traction also don't require a comment field. Free moderation and signal boosting.
I'd also recommend putting an email address on the website (but not your main address). That also tends to promote high-quality engagement with readers directly.