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I also have happened upon an innovative solution to avoid the HN hug of death: Nobody reads my blog.
by jcadam 6y ago
I also have happened upon an innovative solution to avoid the HN hug of death: Nobody reads my blog.
- sarosh 6y agoI wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
- MikusR 6y agoMy method of not having a blog is even better.
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- AndrewStephens 6y agoI endorse this solution as well and proactively work towards it by only publishing boring and obscure content. It has many benefits: * blazingly fast for readers with no chance of slowdown * very low hosting costs * linkfarmers never steal my content * I don't have to moderate comments I recommend this approach to everyone.
- wonder_er 6y agoYou've failed, unfortunately. Your "boring" content is actually quite interesting. Oh well, everything else is true: Blazingly fast, low hosting costs, no comment moderation, etc. >_<
- AndrewStephens 6y agoHey, you take that back.
- jcadam 6y agoPersonally, I plan to try making the apple dumplings.
- fanksomuch 6y agome .. i'm off to buy the ingredients for home made cadbury creme eggs
- edent 6y agoI like your quiz! https://sheep.horse/2019/5/quiz_-_planet_from_doctor_who_or_hair_care_product.html https://sheep.horse/2019/5/quiz_-_planet_from_doctor_who_or_...
- jcadam 6y agoI got a perfect score. If we're being honest, it's more because I know my hair care products than my Dr. Who planets.
- AndrewStephens 6y agoYou really should use an anonymous sockpuppet account if you are going to admit embarrassing things like that in a public forum.
- doctoboggan 6y agoHey, I am about to be a Boston programmer living in New Zealand! Any tips?
- AndrewStephens 6y agoOffice culture in NZ is typically less formal and less top-down than in the US, but that varies widely. Don't feel bad about taking your allotted paid time off days and sick days (if you need to) - it is expected that you will disappear for a week or two periodically. Marmite is supposed to be spread very thinly on buttered toast. Vogels is a good brand of bread for this. Despite what you might hear on the street, Pavlova is not good. Want to know the rest? Hey, buy the rights.
- fanksomuch 6y agoi've just spent a happy half hour on your website. thank you. i miss these kinds of places on the web.
- wonder_er 6y agoThis is the correct solution! And yet that means so many fascinating blogs go unread. A while back, I scraped the top-level comments from a "dear HN, what's your personal blog" post, and found SO MANY AMAZING BLOGS! The tool's here: https://random-hn-blog.herokuapp.com https://random-hn-blog.herokuapp.com I'd much rather read a small obscure blog with very little traffic (well, any small obscure blog but mine) than something that regularly gets deluges of traffic. Something about knowing they're writing to a potentially huge audience changes the writing, I think...