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this chipsandcheese.com web site seems like a gold mine to me - I am visiting HN every few hours for exact such hard core tech stuff! more please! thanks for sh

by tw1984 4y ago

this chipsandcheese.com web site seems like a gold mine to me - I am visiting HN every few hours for exact such hard core tech stuff! more please! thanks for sharing the info/link!

hajile 4y ago
It really is a kind of spiritual successor to Real World Tech and Anandtech. The number of enthusiasts is at an all time high, but the number of in depth tech articles seems to be at an all time low. Everything is just high traffic cursory reviews that often border on clickbait.
- paulmd 4y ago
  There is no money in written content anymore, and it's very difficult to deliver this kind of content as a video. Even for the people who try, it ends up being very lengthy 40m or 90m videos that could really have been a couple pages of text. Leaving the content completely aside, the future of content production is MLID-style stuff, he's been very successful at commercializing his work via the patron model. Some focus videos, some weekly news videos, some viewer "call-in" (chat, discord, etc) interaction videos. You can see Ian Cutress and others moving towards this somewhat. Greg's Airplanes and Automobiles (where my greggheads at?) is one of the few who I'd say produces content that is comparable to long-form written content, and honestly he suffers from the bloat problem. His series on the P-47 is eight parts and none of the parts is less than 40 minutes a video, several are almost 90 minutes. And I doubt he makes anywhere near as much as the more "interactive" and broad/shallow content channels from that ten hours of content. And there's probably another 10-20 hours of research behind every hour of content... which is much lower for shallow content as well. And there is zero chance that written content would make even as much as Greg makes. People aren't willing to pay for it. That's why written tech media (and deep dives) is dying and you get 30 minute GN reviews instead of a 3 page article. I guess what I'm saying is click that donate button on Chips+Cheese's site. Not that I'm any better about it.

by tw1984 4y ago

this chipsandcheese.com web site seems like a gold mine to me - I am visiting HN every few hours for exact such hard core tech stuff! more please! thanks for sharing the info/link!

hajile 4y ago

It really is a kind of spiritual successor to Real World Tech and Anandtech. The number of enthusiasts is at an all time high, but the number of in depth tech articles seems to be at an all time low. Everything is just high traffic cursory reviews that often border on clickbait.

paulmd 4y ago
There is no money in written content anymore, and it's very difficult to deliver this kind of content as a video. Even for the people who try, it ends up being very lengthy 40m or 90m videos that could really have been a couple pages of text. Leaving the content completely aside, the future of content production is MLID-style stuff, he's been very successful at commercializing his work via the patron model. Some focus videos, some weekly news videos, some viewer "call-in" (chat, discord, etc) interaction videos. You can see Ian Cutress and others moving towards this somewhat. Greg's Airplanes and Automobiles (where my greggheads at?) is one of the few who I'd say produces content that is comparable to long-form written content, and honestly he suffers from the bloat problem. His series on the P-47 is eight parts and none of the parts is less than 40 minutes a video, several are almost 90 minutes. And I doubt he makes anywhere near as much as the more "interactive" and broad/shallow content channels from that ten hours of content. And there's probably another 10-20 hours of research behind every hour of content... which is much lower for shallow content as well. And there is zero chance that written content would make even as much as Greg makes. People aren't willing to pay for it. That's why written tech media (and deep dives) is dying and you get 30 minute GN reviews instead of a 3 page article. I guess what I'm saying is click that donate button on Chips+Cheese's site. Not that I'm any better about it.