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I'd add Tailscale and Fly.io to the category, too. Well-written technical blogs are truly the way to HN's heart.
by paulgb 4y ago
I'd add Tailscale and Fly.io to the category, too. Well-written technical blogs are truly the way to HN's heart.
- traceroute66 4y ago> Fly.io ... well-written technical blogs I'm not sure I would class fly.io as well-written technical blogs. Well-written yes, technical no. I used to think the fly.io ones were good, but having read a good few of them I've found they follow the same repetitive structure: - Very light on detail (fly.io blogs are carefully written to *sound* like they're giving you detail, but in reality it's all a 50,000ft view, and a lightweight one at that. Given the length of their average blog post, they could and should do better.). - Constantly going off-tangent, whether randomly talking about sandwich fillings, food-types, or just a paragraph with the author's rant about how they dislike a particular technology. The first couple of times its cute, but after that, not so much ...
- mrkurt 4y agoWould you mind sharing specifics about the first bullet? What's the last post you read you thought could have gone deeper? We definitely want to go deep, some of our posts are better than others.
- 0zemp1c 4y agotbh you seem too focused on making HN happy, makes me wonder about your focus
- mrkurt 4y agoI appreciate it. I do struggle with focus. Thank you for giving me a nudge.
- joshmanders 4y agoIn his defense, HN is his target audience so making them happy is important too.
- kiwicopple 4y agofwiw Kurt, I love reading Fly.io posts. your "globally distributed postgres" post especially[0], which had plenty of depth and no sandwhiches [0] https://fly.io/blog/globally-distributed-postgres/ https://fly.io/blog/globally-distributed-postgres/