Blogs are great and I encourage everyone to start one. Mine has never been popular but I enjoy occasionally writing a quick article on something I found difficult or even just venting into the void.
Curated list of personal blogs
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#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
In the sense that I was discussing, you know, just existing and expressing yourself at a bare minimum, and suddenly having strangers swoop in to get you cancelled, it's relevant enough to me.
My point is very simple, and it goes for blogs, Twitter, Facebook, or bumper stickers on your truck: there's a lot of people out there who looking for the barest thing to fixate upon to get you in trouble, right down to a simple knuckle-crack.
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#93Nice effort. However the HN-based ranking system make this lean heavily towards 'software' tagged blogs.
Having a filter for specific tags (e.g. 'add/remove this tag') would help the blog discovery process.
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#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
That doesn't seem very relevant to the topic of creating a personal blog.
In the sense that I was discussing, you know, just existing and expressing yourself at a bare minimum, and suddenly having strangers swoop in to get you cancelled, it's relevant enough to me. My point is very simple, and it goes for blogs, Twitter, Facebook, or bumper stickers on your truck: there's a lot of people out there who looking for the barest thing to fixate upon to get you in trouble, right down to a simple…
Yeah what I'm saying is that doesn't really happen in the real world, unless you go invite controversy by discussing controversial topics, especially if you aren't an expert on those topics. And even then it's honestly pretty rare and there's even whole industries dedicated to supporting people who are purposefully provocative.
I'll be blunt: I think it's very unlikely that your opinions on are going to revolutionize the status of the debate on that topic. The world has nothing to gain by you writing about that topic, and as you say, there's a chance you have something to lose. So just don't write about that. My advice if you want to maintain a blog is to write about something you care about and know about.
You can view my personal blog if you like, it's in my profile. I write about woodworking and video games and gardening. No one has tried to destroy my life for my experiences with growing grapevines. Sure, if I went off on a rant about or wrote a bunch of hyper-negative invective about , yeah that might come back to bite me. So I don't.
No one's going to come after you for a personal blog about playing guitar or whatever. Stay positive. Stay constructive. Stick to what you know. Don't invite controversy. You'll be fine, and maybe you'll even create something that touches someone else in a positive way.
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#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is similar to the "managers don't want to talk to female employees". The solution is simple. Treat all people as people. If you can't, don't talk about them. Edit: Perhaps projecting my opinions I assumed you were talking about political correctness. However re-reading your post I am not so sure that's what you meant.
He's concerned that his views may become controversial in future. Someone with published centre-right views in Cambodia in 1965 would have felt fairly safe. Fifteen years later they would have been dead. (Ah! I notice you've edited it. It's worth pointing out that 'Political Correctness' was originally a term to describe the 'correct' behaviour of people in totalitarian states.)
I respond to posts the same way I write code.
I write it first, then look for edge cases.
Perhaps I should add a new step, post after the edge cases have been considered.
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#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
What you want is RSS, but you don't need to learn how it works at all. Go to feedly.com and create a (free) account. Add sites you want to follow (there's an 'add content' button which lets you search by URL). Done. Feedly will give you a home page with titles and blurbs, and for many sites you can even get the 'reader mode' content without navigating to the site directly. [Not affiliated with feedly, just a happy us…
I think it’s similar to Feedly but I’m a fan of feedbin.com And for an iOS/Mac client I _highly_ recommend “Reeder”. [0] Have used both for years now. [0] https://reederapp.com
After a period of inactivity, NetNewsWire (https://netnewswire.com) is back as FOSS, and it's awesome.
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#97Awesome, 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.
Most websites that have RSS have a meta tag that identifies the RSS feed, you can just put the normal URL to the site/blog into your RSS reader and it will pick up the RSS feed URL from the meta tag.
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#98Does anyone have a recommendation for blogging platform with Latex + code highlighting support?
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#99Hi, 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.
Unfortunately my code examples are not leet enough to fit in a Tweet. I dislike medium but I also worry that if too many people are reinventing their blog platform, aren't we risking low quality non-scrapable content? Is there a blogging platform that you just have to fill in the blanks and get RSS, accessible content with perhaps a very basic gui and code editor for posts?
Ghost[0]. Seriously, from a user perspective, it doesn't get any simpler than that. You fill a few variables in settings, you write, that's it.
I've toyed around with WordPress, Jekyll, Hugo, etc etc and spent more time making shit work as I want it to than I did actually writing things. Ghost is amazing and I won't look for anything else for a long time.
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#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
In the sense that I was discussing, you know, just existing and expressing yourself at a bare minimum, and suddenly having strangers swoop in to get you cancelled, it's relevant enough to me. My point is very simple, and it goes for blogs, Twitter, Facebook, or bumper stickers on your truck: there's a lot of people out there who looking for the barest thing to fixate upon to get you in trouble, right down to a simple…
Yeah what I'm saying is that doesn't really happen in the real world, unless you go invite controversy by discussing controversial topics, especially if you aren't an expert on those topics. And even then it's honestly pretty rare and there's even whole industries dedicated to supporting people who are purposefully provocative. I'll be blunt: I think it's very unlikely that your opinions on are going to revolutionize…
Except a guy cracking his knuckles got fired, in the real world, so when you say that it doesn't happen, I know that is wrong. We both know it is wrong. I shall now post the link so you can stop saying "that doesn't happen."
https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/sdge-worker-fired-ove...
There. It happened. In the real world. So cracking your knuckles is there under "inviting controversy."