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I write on my own website, where I scream into the wind endlessly like an elderly person shaking his fist angrily at passing clouds. I don't believe anyone read

I write on my own website, where I scream into the wind endlessly like an elderly person shaking his fist angrily at passing clouds. I don't believe anyone reads any of it but I find it helps me get my thoughts in order. It's hosted on DreamHost. It's all custom, I glued it together with Markdown, CSS, and a little Python. I've been with them for years and I can still recommend them. I'm not sure the exact location matters though. Success comes not from the venue but bringing an audience. Also the key to successful self-promotion is to spam your own stuff tirelessly until the heat death of the universe, so here we go: http://www.codersnotes.com/notes/why-build/ http://www.codersnotes.com/notes/why-build/

xtracto 4y ago
I do something similar, I setup a simple Ghost app in a DigitalOcean server. I write for me, I write about stuff that I find interesting and that I want to "find" in the future. I used to have Netscape bookmarks in the 1990s, del.ici.ous bookmarks in the 2000, Google Bookmarks (another for the Google cementery) in the 2010s, and they all have died on me one way or the other. So writing a simple paragraph about a link, idea or thing that I *really* believe I'll find interesting later has worked quite well.
leephillips 4y ago
RSS subscribed. I hope you write more this year.
whiskey14 4y ago
I really enjoyed reading that article, the ending was superb
Eiriksmal 4y ago
Sometimes, it turns out the wind carries your voice farther than you thought. I submitted my blog to Hacker News a few years ago to see if I could get some sweet, sweet SEO juice for my name as I ramped up a job search. It managed to get to the top 5, which was enough to set the SEO flywheel spinning for quite some time. Months later, someone randomly submitted another of my prolix posts to HN--a mind-blowing moment. Is it one of you, dear RSS subscribers? How do you find me? My original thesis was https://lawler.io/scrivings/long-form-websites-and-typography/ https://lawler.io/scrivings/long-form-websites-and-typograph... Tufte CSS + Pelican static Python generated, hosted on a ~$5~ $6 a month DO droplet. Easy to write in a JetBrains IDE in Markdown, preview in Firefox via running `make devserver` in the console, then publish with a simple `make rsync_upload`.
animesh 4y ago
I love reading opinions from experienced developers. Subscribed, thank you.

xtracto 4y ago

I do something similar, I setup a simple Ghost app in a DigitalOcean server. I write for me, I write about stuff that I find interesting and that I want to "find" in the future. I used to have Netscape bookmarks in the 1990s, del.ici.ous bookmarks in the 2000, Google Bookmarks (another for the Google cementery) in the 2010s, and they all have died on me one way or the other. So writing a simple paragraph about a link, idea or thing that I *really* believe I'll find interesting later has worked quite well.

leephillips 4y ago

RSS subscribed. I hope you write more this year.

whiskey14 4y ago

I really enjoyed reading that article, the ending was superb

Eiriksmal 4y ago

Sometimes, it turns out the wind carries your voice farther than you thought. I submitted my blog to Hacker News a few years ago to see if I could get some sweet, sweet SEO juice for my name as I ramped up a job search. It managed to get to the top 5, which was enough to set the SEO flywheel spinning for quite some time. Months later, someone randomly submitted another of my prolix posts to HN--a mind-blowing moment. Is it one of you, dear RSS subscribers? How do you find me? My original thesis was https://lawler.io/scrivings/long-form-websites-and-typography/ https://lawler.io/scrivings/long-form-websites-and-typograph... Tufte CSS + Pelican static Python generated, hosted on a ~$5~ $6 a month DO droplet. Easy to write in a JetBrains IDE in Markdown, preview in Firefox via running `make devserver` in the console, then publish with a simple `make rsync_upload`.

animesh 4y ago

I love reading opinions from experienced developers. Subscribed, thank you.