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Chances are, nobody cares and nobody finds your site in the first place. Just keep a desktop zimwiki or a diary. I recommend using fountain pens, they are lovel

by Zelmor 10y ago

Chances are, nobody cares and nobody finds your site in the first place. Just keep a desktop zimwiki or a diary. I recommend using fountain pens, they are lovely tools to write with. People read successful people's blogs, not yours nor mine (had one 15 years ago, no one read that either). So stop wasting time on tweaking the front porch and work on the piping instead.

tarr11 10y ago
I am a fairly unknown random person, and I get about 100 people a day to my personal blog, hosted on github pages. I don't promote it at all, it's mostly organic search results on whatever problem I've had to solve or solution I've discovered. I post once every few months. Occasionally I get an email thanking me for a post, or correcting some error.
fundamental 10y ago
I'd say that largely depends upon the content. For the content in the original post, I'd generally agree that there isn't likely a huge audience. For some niche (often technical) topics/articles however, the content can be a very valuable resource to interested readers. Additionally, writing blogs/or blog like articles on one's own site doesn't necessarily have to be directed at growing an audience. I personally think that adding some formality to writing (which might not exist in a diary) and publishing it can produce some useful notes for the author to reflect upon later. If nothing else writing short articles can serve as useful practice in writing down and expressing ideas. Of course there is still plenty to be said about the benefits of pen and paper which people do seem to overlook.
sakawa 10y ago
Why so pessimistic? Maybe when writing a blog you won't get more than a handful regular readers, but keeping it public stimulates you to talk about you, your job, and the solutions you got when encountered a problem (sure, you won't talk about how much you love your dog, I hope). I'd also say that a well kept blog may be more important than a CV since you can actually tell how good you are in your job. To answer the question: I used to blog with pelican, and now hugo.
- Zelmor 10y ago
  I guess it came through like that unintentionally. I had a bad time dealing with procrastination back then, where I was writing up snippets and thoughts on a blog instead of working on projects that really pushed me forward in life. Tweaking html and whatnot. I feel that most people crave attention more than they crave growing in whatever they are writing about. Maybe it all boils down to how I felt back then. These days, I read much more and write very little. It fits me at the moment, and I am better for not craving others attention and approval. Oh well, I'll stick to fountain pens for now. :)
gjstein 10y ago
Well not with that attitude. I host an (unknown) personal blog on AWS running Django

by Zelmor 10y ago

tarr11 10y ago

I am a fairly unknown random person, and I get about 100 people a day to my personal blog, hosted on github pages. I don't promote it at all, it's mostly organic search results on whatever problem I've had to solve or solution I've discovered. I post once every few months. Occasionally I get an email thanking me for a post, or correcting some error.

fundamental 10y ago

I'd say that largely depends upon the content. For the content in the original post, I'd generally agree that there isn't likely a huge audience. For some niche (often technical) topics/articles however, the content can be a very valuable resource to interested readers. Additionally, writing blogs/or blog like articles on one's own site doesn't necessarily have to be directed at growing an audience. I personally think that adding some formality to writing (which might not exist in a diary) and publishing it can produce some useful notes for the author to reflect upon later. If nothing else writing short articles can serve as useful practice in writing down and expressing ideas. Of course there is still plenty to be said about the benefits of pen and paper which people do seem to overlook.

sakawa 10y ago

Why so pessimistic? Maybe when writing a blog you won't get more than a handful regular readers, but keeping it public stimulates you to talk about you, your job, and the solutions you got when encountered a problem (sure, you won't talk about how much you love your dog, I hope). I'd also say that a well kept blog may be more important than a CV since you can actually tell how good you are in your job. To answer the question: I used to blog with pelican, and now hugo.

Zelmor 10y ago
I guess it came through like that unintentionally. I had a bad time dealing with procrastination back then, where I was writing up snippets and thoughts on a blog instead of working on projects that really pushed me forward in life. Tweaking html and whatnot. I feel that most people crave attention more than they crave growing in whatever they are writing about. Maybe it all boils down to how I felt back then. These days, I read much more and write very little. It fits me at the moment, and I am better for not craving others attention and approval. Oh well, I'll stick to fountain pens for now. :)

gjstein 10y ago

Well not with that attitude. I host an (unknown) personal blog on AWS running Django