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@danluu: How do you find time to write a detailed post like this outside your day job?

jessermeyer 4y ago
"I'm not going to try to convince you to start writing a blog, since that has to be something you want to do, but I will point out that there's a large gap that's waiting to be filled by your knowledge. When I started writing this blog, I figured almost no one would ever read it; sure Joel Spolsky and Steve Yegge created widely read blogs, but that was back when almost no one was blogging. Now that there are millions of blogs, there's just no way to start a new blog and get noticed. Turns out that's not true." - Dan Luu https://danluu.com/about/ https://danluu.com/about/ As of late he is also supported on patreon: https://www.patreon.com/danluu https://www.patreon.com/danluu
googlryas 4y ago
I have no idea who dan luu is, but I imagine he does something very similar for his day job.
- bombcar 4y ago
  There's a number of people who can take what they do in their day job and then write about it (this example clearly is not that, but he spend 30 minutes speeding up his site, and probably an hour documenting it; that's less time than many of us will waste on HN today).
  - bachmeier 4y ago
    > that's less time than many of us will waste on HN today It's impossible to waste time on HN.[1] [1] That's what I keep telling myself.
- kelnos 4y ago
  Dan Luu's posts show up here pretty often. His posts are generally well thought out and often involve quite a bit of research and deep-diving into whatever topic he's chosen to write about. He doesn't post super often -- a quick perusal of his archive shows at most 3x per month, often less, and often not even once during a random month. So while each post might take a lot of time and effort, it's often spread out over weeks or more. (Not trying to criticize your lack of knowledge here, just aiming to fill a knowledge gap.)
  - KennyBlanken 4y ago
    Meh. They're half good, half snobby and self-righteous. He famously refuses to date his blog posts. And in this case, the page is years old, no longer relevant to the content of his blog and contains techniques that are not recommended and will in fact slow down your page load. Either keep content relevant, or put dates on it so people can be aware that content might be outdated.
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raptor99 4y ago
More importantly to me, how did he "Futz around" for 25 minutes and do all of this in the article? I'm calling BS/extreme exaggeration.

"I'm not going to try to convince you to start writing a blog, since that has to be something you want to do, but I will point out that there's a large gap that's waiting to be filled by your knowledge. When I started writing this blog, I figured almost no one would ever read it; sure Joel Spolsky and Steve Yegge created widely read blogs, but that was back when almost no one was blogging. Now that there are millions of blogs, there's just no way to start a new blog and get noticed. Turns out that's not true." - Dan Luu https://danluu.com/about/ https://danluu.com/about/ As of late he is also supported on patreon: https://www.patreon.com/danluu https://www.patreon.com/danluu

googlryas 4y ago

I have no idea who dan luu is, but I imagine he does something very similar for his day job.

bombcar 4y ago
There's a number of people who can take what they do in their day job and then write about it (this example clearly is not that, but he spend 30 minutes speeding up his site, and probably an hour documenting it; that's less time than many of us will waste on HN today).
- bachmeier 4y ago
  > that's less time than many of us will waste on HN today It's impossible to waste time on HN.[1] [1] That's what I keep telling myself.
kelnos 4y ago
Dan Luu's posts show up here pretty often. His posts are generally well thought out and often involve quite a bit of research and deep-diving into whatever topic he's chosen to write about. He doesn't post super often -- a quick perusal of his archive shows at most 3x per month, often less, and often not even once during a random month. So while each post might take a lot of time and effort, it's often spread out over weeks or more. (Not trying to criticize your lack of knowledge here, just aiming to fill a knowledge gap.)
- KennyBlanken 4y ago
  Meh. They're half good, half snobby and self-righteous. He famously refuses to date his blog posts. And in this case, the page is years old, no longer relevant to the content of his blog and contains techniques that are not recommended and will in fact slow down your page load. Either keep content relevant, or put dates on it so people can be aware that content might be outdated.

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raptor99 4y ago

More importantly to me, how did he "Futz around" for 25 minutes and do all of this in the article? I'm calling BS/extreme exaggeration.