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Every technical blog post is these days, all just part of one massive content strategy grift. It's tiring. I miss the old days of good technical writers writing

Every technical blog post is these days, all just part of one massive content strategy grift. It's tiring. I miss the old days of good technical writers writing useful blog posts which people read and appreciated.

rattray 6y ago
As a tutorial for using Splitgraph, this seems unobjectionable. Even the title doesn't bother me in that context. But the title in hn is off-putting - agree it feels like misleading marketing. And yeah, I agree it'd be nicer to have an honest to goodness breakdown of FDWs. Where they came from, how they work under the hood, how to set one up from the bottom up, what the tradeoffs and pitfalls are, etc. Though I wouldn't be bothered if such an article served as content marketing for some postgres company or engineering brand myself. Someone's gotta find the writing - it's hard work.
- chatmasta 6y ago
  Hey, Splitgraph co-founder here. Sorry, we don't mean to come off that way. We'll try to use less clickbaity titles in the future, and I'm sure we'll be writing some more independent Postgres tutorials/content as well. Our goal in building Splitgraph is to improve the data science ecosystem, so we're doing all we can to gain some early adopters for what we really think is a useful tool. For what it's worth, we are trying to keep a balance in our blog posts between obvious content marketing and useful technical content, e.g. this article where we discuss building Docker containers with Makefiles. [0] [0] https://www.splitgraph.com/blog/makefile https://www.splitgraph.com/blog/makefile
  - rattray 6y ago
    Thanks - mind changing this one? Looks like it was submitted by your handle.
    - chatmasta 6y ago
      I can't at this point (I think you have max 1 hour). Dang might be able to do it, this comment will probably summon him.
      - rattray 6y ago
        Oh got it - thanks for trying!
pjungwir 6y ago
For Postgres specifically, I've been enjoying Bruce Momjian's blog lately [1]. He posts some tidbit every day or two, and not trivial things you'd already know. depesz.com is great too and really helps you stay on top of what's new in Postgres. And the pg consulting companies post quite a lot of great articles that aren't really about selling you something. (Obviously they would be happy for you to hire them, but that's pretty indirect.) [1] https://momjian.us/main/blogs/pgblog/2020.html https://momjian.us/main/blogs/pgblog/2020.html
- valuearb 6y ago
  Thanks for sharing.

rattray 6y ago

As a tutorial for using Splitgraph, this seems unobjectionable. Even the title doesn't bother me in that context. But the title in hn is off-putting - agree it feels like misleading marketing. And yeah, I agree it'd be nicer to have an honest to goodness breakdown of FDWs. Where they came from, how they work under the hood, how to set one up from the bottom up, what the tradeoffs and pitfalls are, etc. Though I wouldn't be bothered if such an article served as content marketing for some postgres company or engineering brand myself. Someone's gotta find the writing - it's hard work.

chatmasta 6y ago
Hey, Splitgraph co-founder here. Sorry, we don't mean to come off that way. We'll try to use less clickbaity titles in the future, and I'm sure we'll be writing some more independent Postgres tutorials/content as well. Our goal in building Splitgraph is to improve the data science ecosystem, so we're doing all we can to gain some early adopters for what we really think is a useful tool. For what it's worth, we are trying to keep a balance in our blog posts between obvious content marketing and useful technical content, e.g. this article where we discuss building Docker containers with Makefiles. [0] [0] https://www.splitgraph.com/blog/makefile https://www.splitgraph.com/blog/makefile
- rattray 6y ago
  Thanks - mind changing this one? Looks like it was submitted by your handle.
  - chatmasta 6y ago
    I can't at this point (I think you have max 1 hour). Dang might be able to do it, this comment will probably summon him.
    - rattray 6y ago
      Oh got it - thanks for trying!

pjungwir 6y ago

For Postgres specifically, I've been enjoying Bruce Momjian's blog lately [1]. He posts some tidbit every day or two, and not trivial things you'd already know. depesz.com is great too and really helps you stay on top of what's new in Postgres. And the pg consulting companies post quite a lot of great articles that aren't really about selling you something. (Obviously they would be happy for you to hire them, but that's pretty indirect.) [1] https://momjian.us/main/blogs/pgblog/2020.html https://momjian.us/main/blogs/pgblog/2020.html

valuearb 6y ago
Thanks for sharing.