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Brilliant comment! Do you have a blog? If not you should!

• hilbert42 5y ago
  Thanks for your praise, it's much appreciated. No is the answer to your question. I had a website years back but I never considered myself a sufficiently competent writer to hold readers' attention to make blogs a big part of it. Furthermore, for blogs to be successful there has to be some regularly to them or one's audience will vanish - and as my greatest enemy time is always of the essence - I cannot guarantee that. Nevertheless, from the excessive length of many of my HN posts you'd reckon that time was no object. Well, COVID did provide some unexpected extra time over the last year or so but the main reason I post here is that HN has a ready source of excellent and interesting stories that I can respond to immediately with little forethought. It's unlikely that I'd take the time to write if the stories weren't the mitigating or moving factor. I write primarily as an aide-mémoire to myself as writing about a subject codifies one's thoughts. And the added advantage of posting on HN is that I have to make what I say legible in case someone actually reads what I've written - I cannot resort to my quasi-illegible bullet points as is my usual wont. :-) Two things I'm always mindful of when posting, the first is that I'm acutely aware that very few bother to read long posts - but then that's hardly an issue if they're mainly notes to myself. The second is accuracy, nothing mortifies me more than rereading one of my posts days later and realizing that what I've written is garbage and that it'd be better deleted but that I can no longer do so. Fortunately that doesn't happen often.