Why don't I have a blog?

If you don't have anything interesting to say, I recommend playing devil's advocate and becoming an internet troll. Once you decouple interesting things to say from your actual opinions and feelings (which as mentioned, are often boring and just regurgitations of the top most popular comments), it becomes quite liberating to write about a lot of things. You can now take any position, any angle you want, on a specific topic, and have no obligation to stick to your own personal thoughts. Your personal feelings often hold you back from actually saying something interesting and novel, since most of our feelings are often just carbon copies of whatever the most popular sentiment in a community is.

It will also vastly improve your writing style. You can choose a blunt inflammatory approach to writing, or take a more subtle passive aggressive style that skirts Poe's Law. Either way, when you do this for a long time you will really get to learn what pushes people's buttons and gets views. It's intoxicating to see long threads of discussion spawned from something you say, and it becomes a game to figure out how you can spawn huge discussions using as few words as possible.

When you write from an opposing view of your actual opinions you also end up learning a lot about the strengths and weaknesses of your opinion based on the replies people write. In fact, a good way to often learn about a topic is to say something blatantly wrong and watch as people come to correct you with hard hitting facts and arguments. You can later use these same arguments in your own genuine debates with other people!

Honestly, there's a lot of surprising benefits for a writer trolling around on the internet, but the downside is that it seeps toxicity into communities, since the people you troll tend to believe you are a true believer of what you say, and when they take you seriously it tends to brew pointless animosity. I often say trolling is for people who just love to write (about anything!) and genuine internet discussions are for those who love to be right.

I myself would really like to have a blog again, like I used to have. Sometimes write a post or write about some software I am trying to write. However, I do not have a blog. Not, because I could not easily make one. I could indeed easily create one. I wrote multiple blog software thingies myself in the past. I do not have a blog, because of laws, where I live. There is a law, that you must put your contact information on the site, if you do any of a few things. Even though I am not doing any of those things, there are lawyers out there just waiting to send you a letter, when you do not have contact information on your page. You be careful, that nothing you write could be interpreted as "journalistic" or "ads", otherwise that lawyer might win the case. Actually you do not want a case in the first place.

I would like to write about anything I want online on a blog, for everyone to read or ignore. I would like to make fun of politicians and write about how they are doing things wrong. Or about philosophy and ethics. Well, if I did that and did not provide contact info, I would be making myself a target for greedy people, who do not care about free speech.

So I stay without a blog and simply manage my git repositories. It is really sad, that the law is this silly and basically antagonistic towards blogging and not wanting every perv on the net to know, where I live or how to give me a call. I know very few blogs from my country and I think the blogging scene is basically dead here.

Where do you live?

The web site in their profile says Germany.

They're typically just easy ways to submit early work, work in progress, etc to a conference with relatively little commitment.

I'm in the biomedical informatics world generally, and for my conferences it's a one-page abstract that describes your work, if accepted after peer review (which, there's a 90% acceptance rate) you then make a poster with more details about what you did and then stand by it for about an hour during the conference and answer any questions from people walking by. Then I typically just have links to the abstract and PDF of the poster on my website.

The poster doesn't prevent you from doing anything further... so, if you keep working on it, you can turn it into a talk or paper. And a lot of companies will pay for your travel to a conference if you're presenting, so it's often the lowest-effort way to get your company to pay for you to go to a conference.