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This is good advice for people whose livelihood depends on the attention of anonymous strangers. For everyone else, it’s probably ok to ignore.
by muglug 2y ago
This is good advice for people whose livelihood depends on the attention of anonymous strangers. For everyone else, it’s probably ok to ignore.
- pcloadletter_ 2y agoIt's also just kind of cool and fun to hack together a personal website
- dend 2y agoTotally. If I would tell 10-year-old me that I have my own website on my own domain, it would be seen as a shocking development. I find it really cool to be able to have a corner of the internet that is just mine.
- hackernewds 2y agoThis is practically everyone's Facebook Instagram Whatsapp Airbnb anything at all profile already
- arminiusreturns 2y agoI still get a rush with a new server on the internet!!! (especially my latest host: 12 core new gen epyc instances with 48G RAM.)
- anarwhal 2y agoYes, and we're on _Hacker_ News after all - doing this just for fun should be sufficient reason in and of itself
- Valord 2y agoHad the itch. Did it. No regrets
- dend 2y agoYou don't even need attention - it could be a public blog where you share about the things you learn. You never know who it's going to help. That's primarily my motivation with the blog.
- dni0 2y agoIndeed. If you only use social media to connect with friends and family... good luck getting them to visit literally any other website.