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Re: Curated list of personal blogs

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Post by city41 »

polote wrote: post #24
ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #21

I support the effort, but I have seen these things generally devolve, fairly rapidly, once people figure out how to game the system. For myself, I've done a ton of writing[0], but my work seems to be too long-form for most. I don't really go out of my way to promote it. I basically have them up, so I can reference them in the odd comment. Not the end of the world. I generally write for my own benefit; not for others.…

If you don't promote it, how do you want people to discover it ? Long post do well on HN comparatively with other boards. [1] is exactly the kind of post that I include in my newsletter, but if it is not posted on HN, I can't see it (there is a typo in the link you posted) [1] https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/the-road-most-travel...

I've completely given up on promoting my stuff. It used to be very easy and straightforward. Like minded folks could find new stuff without a problem. Nowadays, there's just way too much content, the vast majority of very low effort, and you get lost in the noise immediately.

For example, I have an old blog post that got featured in podcasts, on dailyjs, HN, is linked to from MDN, etc. When I wrote it in 2014 I pretty much just submitted it to Reddit, that's it. Nowadays I couldn't recreate that exposure -- or even a tiny fraction of it -- if my life depended on it.

Re: Curated list of personal blogs

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Post by DHPersonal »

JKCalhoun wrote: post #5

Awesome, I agree, personal blogs are great. I can't help but notice all the blogs tagged "software" in the list (so far). In fact, I think if there was a filter to exclude software blogs, there might be only a few remaining? I missed out on the whole RSS thing when it was popular. My sense was that it solved the problem of knowing when, among a whole bunch of blogs, a site had new content. Perhaps it exists, I want a…

If you’re on Apple products, go get NetNewsWire in the App Store and use your iCloud space to sync subscriptions between devices. You’ll have to manually add RSS feeds, but those are usually discoverable by doing a web search for your site + feed or rss, or by adding /feed or /rss to the end of the site URL to see if it’s hiding there.

Re: Curated list of personal blogs

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Post by SamBam »

JKCalhoun wrote: post #5

Awesome, I agree, personal blogs are great. I can't help but notice all the blogs tagged "software" in the list (so far). In fact, I think if there was a filter to exclude software blogs, there might be only a few remaining? I missed out on the whole RSS thing when it was popular. My sense was that it solved the problem of knowing when, among a whole bunch of blogs, a site had new content. Perhaps it exists, I want a…

> I can't help but notice all the blogs tagged "software" in the list (so far). In fact, I think if there was a filter to exclude software blogs, there might be only a few remaining?

Sort the table by Tags.

There are 9 non-software blogs out of ~250 blogs. So, yes, about 96% software.

Re: Curated list of personal blogs

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Post by exaltation »

If you feel overwhelmed by all the blog posts out there, there are newsletters that will send you one or several articles a day and let you ingest them slowly. I particularly like Thinking About Things and Findka Essays.

[0] https://www.thinking-about-things.com/ [1] https://essays.findka.com/

Re: Curated list of personal blogs

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Post by chipotle_coyote »

lambic wrote: post #78
CarelessExpert wrote: post #53

For folks interested in this space, there's a few other resources of which I'm a fan. First, there's Micro.blog ( https://micro.blog/ ). They can host a blog for you, or you can publish to their service for free using your own blog by pointing Micro.blog at your RSS feed (I do the latter). Think blogging but with a social element, facilitating both interaction and content discovery. Second, there's the IndieWeb movem…

Indieweb uses Slack? That's... confusing.

"Indieweb uses Slack" in the sense that, yes, there is an Indieweb Slack team. There are probably also people who contribute to the Indieweb who use Twitter and Facebook and other fully proprietary systems, as well as many who use Micro.blog, which is built using established open standards but does not make its server open source.

Don't be the guy who strokes his chin and says "You say you're a vegan, yet you have a leather wallet. Interesting."

Re: Curated list of personal blogs

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Post by coldpie »

at_a_remove wrote: post #77
coldpie wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They make a lot of headlines, but you really have to say something extremely boneheaded for anyone to care about your opinions enough to do something about it. Stick to topics you're knowledgeable about (this is how you avoid saying boneheaded things), and generally stay positive and constructive, and you won't have any trouble. The fear you're feeling is wildly out of whack with reality.

Or you can be some random Mexican guy fired for making an OK sign with your hand, by accident . Because that is now the white power sign. That's reality now.

That doesn't seem very relevant to the topic of creating a personal blog.

Re: Curated list of personal blogs

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Post by criddell »

lazyjones wrote: post #74
valdect wrote: post #2

Hi, nowadays blogging is becoming less and less popular and people use twitter as their personal blog. This site is created to provide curated list of fine blogs, provided with their tags,feed links and hackernews page. The site is hosted on github and you can contribute to it if you want.

Twitter is becoming less relevant for personal stuff, it's mostly politics now. For personal things, people use Tiktok and youtube now.

> it's mostly politics now

That depends on who you follow. It's in your hands.

Re: Curated list of personal blogs

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Post by azemetre »

lazyjones wrote: post #74
valdect wrote: post #2

Hi, nowadays blogging is becoming less and less popular and people use twitter as their personal blog. This site is created to provide curated list of fine blogs, provided with their tags,feed links and hackernews page. The site is hosted on github and you can contribute to it if you want.

Twitter is becoming less relevant for personal stuff, it's mostly politics now. For personal things, people use Tiktok and youtube now.

Do you have examples of people using tiktok for programming or software related topics? Generally curious what the content is like.

Software talk on instagram is pretty surface level and very picture oriented (look at my desk setup/terminal/editor/whatever).

Re: Curated list of personal blogs

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Post by [deleted] »

valdect wrote: post #2

Hi, nowadays blogging is becoming less and less popular and people use twitter as their personal blog. This site is created to provide curated list of fine blogs, provided with their tags,feed links and hackernews page. The site is hosted on github and you can contribute to it if you want.

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Re: Curated list of personal blogs

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Post by coldpie »

Alex3917 wrote: post #69

Is there a good way to search (e.g. like a Google search) only personal blogs and homepages? I was looking into this the other day, but couldn't figure out a solution.

Best I've come up with is adding like "wordpress" (in quotes, to force it) and other blogging software with common footers into the query. Not a great solution, but sometimes turns up interesting stuff.
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