Xe, thank you so much for your work. I love reading your blog, it’s calming and makes me laugh. I look up to you as someone who I would like to be in my professional life. Best wishes :)
Thanks! I recently just got a new lens for my camera after all of the income from last month came in. It's a very used 35mm lens for my D3300 and the autofocus is a bit broken, meaning that I'm forced to do the focus manually (which is something I want to get better at anyways).
That combined with Patreon does! I'm likely going to spin up a small corporation so that I can funnel my side income through there and avoid having to go through the logistical nightmare of double income tax because of imperialist IRS policies. Sometimes I justify fun purchases that I could afford anyways (eg: very used camera lens or that Anbernic Win600 that I ended up liking for 2D games but couldn't hold comfortably enough to use the sticks) with ad/Patreon income. Sometimes it ends up on the blog anyways. Stay tuned!
Speaking of the ad-block message, perhaps it is worth adding who/what ethicalads.io is. I too un-blocked them on yours site, partially because their approach seems more justifiable than others I've run across. I wouldn't even mind un-blocking ads that are self-hosted by a site I like, but nobody does that any more. Anything that smells of surveillance capitalism can stay on my shit list though.
Ethical Ads (https://www.ethicalads.io/) looks interesting, wish there were more ad-tech companies like this. Would love one focused on the travel niche.
Thanks! I have been working on that style of writing some more. I have another story in that "universe" called Protos (https://xeiaso.net/blog/protos) that you may enjoy. I'm working on some more, but it's a very subtle kind of magick that you have to poke at from all angles simultaneously. It takes effort.
I'm sure I'll come up with something eventually, I might do one about spatial computing. That seems like it could be a fun topic for this kind of satire.
Here's hoping! I have also been bringing that energy to the work blog (eg: https://tailscale.dev/blog/headscale-funnel), and it's been working really well. I'm working on turning the user personas that we're tracking in DevRel into Socratic characters. It's a slow process, but writing is never fast consistently.
Thanks! I try. Hacker News isn't my primary target audience, but I've come to peace with the fact that I'm well-loved there. I could really do without the harassment from the less tolerant side of the userbase, but I figure that this is the price of success.
I really like your website/blog! It's one of my fav blogs out there that I'd wholeheartedly recommend to anyone. I also like the fact that the ads are not intrusive at all
From an analysis perspective, I do not believe you can call an O(n) algorithm constant because you could run it on a computer with n cores.
From a practical perspective, I do not believe it is bounded by K, where all numbers you sort are less than K. Consider an array of one hundred trillion items, each being the number 1. This is bounded by the array length, not the number 1.
Realistically, I don't know what the complexity of that algorithm is or if it's possible to have one. Making the argument it is constant time is intended to be a bit of a joke at how difficult it is to give it a time complexity. My interpretation of it as constant time (temporal multiplicand multiplied by the largest value in the list) is going by wall clock time, which is arguably the time that matters in an interview.
People are welcome to post their own stuff as long as it's part of a mix of unrelated/interesting submissions. What gets accounts "super deranked" is when they only post their own stuff or use HN primarily for promotion (this is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). Your account hasn't been doing that at all, so you're fine, and certainly welcome to post your articles if you want to.
Edit: I sent you repost invites for https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36211059 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35881175, both of which are great HN submissions. If you use them, the reposts will go in HN's second-chance pool, so they'll get a random placement on the front page. If you don't want to be bothered in this way, please say so and we won't do it again!
It's just enough to be a headache tax-wise, but not enough to be a viable replacement for my dayjob. Something like $50-$200 USD per month. Slow months are less, months where I post bangers are more. Combined with Patreon (consistently $200 per month), it's enough to make all of my hosting costs covered. It's seriously incredible that I can have that much support for not a lot of work. I am also looking at further cost-optimizing things so that I can move my website to something like Fly. My server that my website is hosted on is like 55€ per month and the main reason it needs something that chonky is because Tokio performs better when there's more runner threads.
Otherwise I've also been considering pooling money for a bit and buying a proper server to drop into a datacentre near where I live. That could be fun!
This was an interesting read but didn't describe what it was like to _use_ today, other than comparing UI interaction to older and modern devices. Did you try using it as your everyday music player?
The blog and the website is statically generated using a Common Lisp program. Only the comment form is dynamic and served using a tiny web application, also written in Common Lisp. See https://github.com/susam/susam.net for the source code.
You probably have seen this in the front page sometime last week due to the "Fast machines, slow machines" post :)
I started this blog during exams session back in university and I'll reach the 20-year mark next year. Wow. I write about my own projects, but also tech in general based on my current interests, which at the moment are around Rust, Bazel (again), and Unix systems in general.
It's interesting how the blog has changed: I used to write short posts almost daily describing whatever I had been tinkering with in open source projects (back when I contributed to NetBSD and Gnome regularly)... or whatever crossed my mind really. These days, most of those misc posts go into social media, and the blog is reserved for purposeful articles, which end up being much longer (and thus infrequent).
Commenting on the blog used to be much more common years ago, but these days discussion happen off-site in either social media or here. Similarly, people used to visit the blog periodically, but these days nobody does: traffic to the blog is either from organic searches or from spikes due to referrals from sites like HN.
As for how I build it: the posts are written in Markdown; I use Hugo to generate the site; Bootstrap for styling; and my custom web service (EndTRACKER) to offer email subscriptions, post voting and commenting, as well as privacy-respecting analytics.
Hey, I read your blog after you commented in another topic that was created with a link to my blog.
I didn't have the right context then to mention it, but now I do: I really enjoyed your topics on Bazel and especially the "A persistent task queue in Rust" post which I learned from.
I went back far enough that day to the point that some of your posts looked like they were taken from twitter threads, and I wondered how that worked.
If you're ever looking to work in GameDev (in Europe), hit me up.
The Bazel posts stopped for a while after I left Google, but I'm now back at a different place where I'm working with Bazel once again. So you can expect the posts on this topic to gradually come back :) (For some context, here is one: https://medium.com/snowflake/addressing-bazel-ooms-38023b736...)
Let's see if my plans to return to Europe in the next few years play out...
Edit: Oh, and the few posts that look like Twitter threads (they are tagged like that) are hand-crafted and were an experiment. I first wrote the threads as blog posts, ensuring each paragraph fit in a tweet, and then copy/pasted them into Twitter. I wrote them as a blog post because I wanted to have the "unrolled" version in the canonical source for future reference, without relying on those unroll apps.
I was going to just reply with a link to Frank Zappa's Muffin Man, but then I thought I'd better just check to see if there was any direct influence, however vanishingly unlikely that seemed.
And lo! The footnote on the about page even has a link to the song.
My most played Zappa song, sitting just above Eat That Question, Peaches En Regalia, and Montana (apologies for how mainstream that selection is).
Going to see an unbelievably talented Zappa cover band in a couple of weeks, here's a sample of their wares:
Fun story, while we were in high school, my friend's computer broke down. All of his music was on it, so I borrowed him a bunch of CDs. He really liked Zappa's "Strictly Commercial" compilation and he became obsessed. Fast forward a couple of years and he is the one sending me Zappa's bootlegs and weird recordings which I would probably never heard otherwise. He even created a compilation for me, which he named "Almost Commercial" and I cherish it dearly :)
Around 2006 these "desktop" webapps was getting popular, there are some with even more comprehensive features (for its time) which I forgot the name (probably OnlineOS, can't verify it because it's dead: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_OS).
I’ve been working as a software engineer for about a decade now, primarily at startups. Recently the first employee at incident.io, before then working at GoCardless.
Tend to write about lessons I’ve learned that others find useful, or stories I think will be enjoyable. Helps me collect my thoughts and practice my writing!
I feel a tad awkward because 1) I only started this last week 2) I'm not super tech-y or owt like everyone else here, I'm just a bloke who knows his limits. It's very lightweight & basic and inspired by the likes of bearblog and other small blogs.
It's for expressing general thoughts really, and it serves as a fun trial by fire as every little change inevitably runs into problems, but it's a nice learning experience. Hopefully my writing isn't terrible!
This'll probably sound silly but like everything else on the site I do it manually. I take notes of major changes I make to the site and write them down on that page.
I couldn't wrap my head around Jekyll* or any other service you can self host, so I figured that I could still put my stuff out there by making each page like it's 1999.
I realise that it's not the best option for the future, the other day I decided to change how the title tags looked, thus I went ahead manually changing it on every page. Without some script to fix that for me, it'll become a larger task with every post I make.
* I've only recently installed Linux on my ThinkPad – a process I'm procrastinating writing about – and my head's been a tad too scrambled at the moment to focus on it.
Started in 2004 on Dotclear, migrated to Wordpress around 2008/2009 then, last year, exported everything to make a static website/gemini capsule of it (with a custom python script)
This blog has changed my life. It landed me jobs, it made me become a writer without having to ask (all the book I’ve published so fare were on request of publishers because of my blog). I’m really happy to have all this history and I hope to keep it until my very last post. It is now part of my identity.
I read your capsule. I think you hit it out of the park when discussing how Google impacted XMPP and the possible implications for the fediverse. Nicely done.
Thanks, it really count for me to know that people care about what I write.
Indeed, I’ve merged my blog and my capsule now. Those are the same content (because I realized that, sometimes, stuff I wrote on Gemini ended being shared on the web through gemini proxies)
Hi there! I adore your blog. Quick question - you have an MBA from Stanford, and you're a software engineer rather than a 'manager'. Are there others like you? I was thinking of an MBA as an option, but was afraid my focus after that might not be technical enough.
"Quite a few people in business have paired a liberal arts undergrad degree with an MBA. They seem to do just fine. But I think that’s a missed opportunity—much better would be an MBA on top of an engineering or math undergraduate degree. People with that combination are invaluable, and there aren’t nearly enough of them running around."
I needed to read that today, (Purdue computer eng + Harvard MBA here)
Hey! You have some interesting content. If you had a rss/atom feed I'd happily subscribe to it.
A comment on your site: I have to zoom to 300% on firefox to get what seems like a 'natural' view. Without this it feels like I'm viewing a pdf. This is not serious criticism, but something that bothered me a bit. Others may feel differently.
I've been wanting to add RSS to it for a while tbh but I've been consistently distracted by other things. Since classes are over I might get around to it eventually.
As for the pdf look, you're right. The problem I encountered way back when I was actually building the site was that I didn't know what to put on the extra margins. I could've put footnotes and figures, but that's pretty hard to do if you're generating the site from markdown without a custom markdown engine. I'll see what I can do about it tho, and if you have any suggestions for how I could improve this I'm all ears.
i've found SO MANY wonderful personal blogs here on HN. I even built a little web scraping thing a long time ago to scrape these links from the top-level comments: https://random-hn-blog.herokuapp.com/
Heroku shut it down, but I'm gonna see if i can bring it back online in like 30 seconds...
The climbing one that you linked says something about “the video below” but I don’t actually see a video. Might just be because I’m on my phone but I was curious if that video still exists.
I had a whole thing happening around becoming a bold lead climber by becoming an amazing lead belayer.
It was great! I've helped many, many people become very safe, very confident sport climbers. Watching them 'climb through the grades' is enjoyable for all parties.
I'm a huge fan of your blog. _Part Time Creator Manifesto_ inspired me to start on side projects again and _Svelte for Sites, React for Apps_ was the first intro I had to Svelte.
Mine is about me and how I overcome loneliness that has been a part of my life for third of my life where I speak about my tips, advice and science on this subject. On the way I share my stories. Here it is - https://transcendloneliness.substack.com/
I started recently after a little cancer scare shook me up. It is about trying new things, re-starting my life a bit, I think. I plan to write for fun about things that I find interesting and that give me joy, like walking multiple paths of Camino de Santiago or my attempts to return to competitive cycling at 47.
About two months ago, there was an Ask HN about the most interesting interesting tech you built for just yourself [1]. In this topic, I shared about my Ghidra modifications to unlink pieces of an executable back into relocatable object files [2] in an effort to reverse-engineer a PlayStation 1 video game.
Long story short, I've wanted to write about this esoteric but powerful technique and it snowballed into starting my own blog with a series of articles about reverse-engineering. It's still a WIP draft, quite rough around the edges and not ready for prime-time, but you only have that kind of Ask HN thread once (every couple of years I assume).
Side-note: the Google and Bing webcrawlers managed to find and index that domain name despite having no public links to it whatsoever (to my knowledge) until now, my only logical explanation is that they've found it by scrapping the WHOIS database. It's also hosted inside my home on my personal Synology DS218 NAS with a rather dodgy setup, which will probably crash and burn under any level of load by the time you've read this comment.
Mostly tech stuff, and some games. Recent topics have been:
Python, Django, C, CMake, SDL2.
These days I generally use it as a place to write up notes on whatever I happened to be working on recently. This is sometimes useful for me to refer back to, and hopefully useful for others too.
On one occasion I searched on Google to try and help solve a programming problem, only to find a post from myself published 8 months earlier, in which I had solved that exact same problem:
Before becoming a full time software engineer I used to develop video games for fun, initially in Game Maker but then later in Unity and other languages. Over time I'm aiming to (re)publish them on my website, rather than just leaving them to rot on my hard drive. None were particularly big hits back in the day, though the most successful was probably Dominos 2: Winter Edition, a physics based platformer with level editor. You can play it here:
Fairly certain I played Dominos 2 back when it was in the yoyogames competition. Nice to see a little blast from the past! Makes me want to go dig my Game Maker games out of the pile of hard drives in my parents' basement.
I passed 400 posts a month or so ago; been writing for about a decade. It's a mix of programming, arty stuff, digital preservation, personal thoughts – the first link describes the sort of writing I do, and examples of each.
Haven't been posting lately – COVID+War, plus my main focus now on radical reforming sports system in Ukraine and building a new figure skating federation (a lot of cool coding stuff there too, but also a lot of research on sports governance/science).
An incomplete list of things that I do as a hobby.
There have been a few posts that have sparked discussions on HN, and quite a few of them relate to the ThinkPad T430. I often jokingly say that this laptop has been a good investment in more ways than one.
Perhaps a hundred posts, with the last significant block being ten years ago. I should really get back to it sometime... Posts that tend to have some lasting power:
Since 2012 I have a one-track mind. I want a world with:
* hundreds of software products for any need (mostly check)
* that can all be easily modified by hundreds of thousands of people,
* creating tens of thousands of forks,
* publishing thousands of forks
* used by millions of people.
Wake up sheeple! Add more resilience to your software tools! I joined Mastodon in 2018, the Tildeverse in 2020, Lemmy in 2022, Calckey in 2023. Monopolies won't break themselves, each of us has to be willing to think different, try out new things.
FWIW I like the direction of using Lua, and the text editor with graphics looks cool
I wasn't super excited about Mu because it wouldn't let me reuse my existing knowledge -- it would be a separate thing to learn, even if in theory it was easier to learn than mainstream stacks
I really love this thread. So many great websites, it almost reminds one of the good old days, where you could wander from one blog to another.
I have ended up with two blogs and by no means update them often enough. My personal blog started out as being tech-focused with a bit of photography and motorcycle content, but is probably leaning more and more in way of photography and motorcycles.
Hence I started a more simple static site generated from Github to handle the more tech-oriented topics. But as fate would have it, I have worked very little with any even mildly interesting tech-related subjects since then so the blog is a bit stale, even though I really like the design.
https://ilearnt.com/
Over 200 posts on random things I have learnt or found interesting. Some are techie, some are work related, some are about life. Recent posts have included:
I love second-life retirement activities like this! Such a benefit to the world. And I think your former domain expertise can give you unique insight into other disciplines.
I usually write about whatever I'm practicing and learning at the moment. My topics have included coding tips in various tech stacks, career growth, ai, web3, hiring, interviewing, knowledge management, leadership and everything in between.
I'm trying to adopt as much IndieWeb as I can while still remaining a static JS-free site (except for the crappy search results page). Comments are Webmentions.
I test compatibility with a lot more than just mainstream browsers: the Tor Browser's safest mode, various article extractors, NetSurf, Ladybird, w3m, and a dozen other user-agents work well. Accessibility-wise, I'm close to WCAG 2.2 AAA compliance, and have already passed AA; I consider WCAG a starting rather than a stopping point. More on its design is in the "Meta" section.
It has long-form blog articles and short-form notes (microblogs).
My best posts are on the homepage, followed by a bunch of webrings.
I love your blog. It's clear that you care as much about thinking and writing clearly as you do about your tech stack and readers' experience. I hop you continue to publish your ideas on the web. I always learn a lot from your posts.
It's only a few months old, but I kicked off the blog by sharing the story of my last three years: going through divorce, burnout and depression as a cofounder, in the midst of the pandemic.
I was mostly writing this blog in private in a md file in Obsidian, and then created a script to make it generate all the html for that site. (article for that here: https://robkohr.com/articles/created-a-new-blog-render)
Just chiming in, and quite happy to see this thread pop up! I was having a conversation elsewhere about how it's up to us to create the internet we want and bring back the allegedly already passed golden age of connection through creation!
Your post was dead, as are all your comments and submissions it seems. Since I didn't find any reason for that from a cursory look, I've vouched here. Maybe ask dang why and how to avoid that?
The only reliable way to do that is to email hn@ycombinator.com. Fortunately someone did, and I've fixed the problem.
The account was banned by a naughty spam filter, completely incorrectly. I've terminated that spam filter and restored the account and all its posts. Sorry joehx2 - you did nothing wrong!
https://dreadnaut.altervista.org - I can't believe I've been writing on it for 20 years now. I duplicated all content in English and Italian for a few years, then stuck to Italian when I moved to the UK — need to keep the balance.
I write very little these days, but you can find a mix of tech and economics, as well as a selection of my photography (mostly travel and street photo).
I'm closing in on the 100 blog posts mark. Almost all are about pretty esoteric electronics topics (by HN standards) that I've been learning about myself.
I rarely get a lot of traction, but that's to be expected given the topics.
I do get a bit of a kick out of the fact that many of my blog posts will end up in the top 5 Google results when you search for one or two words of the subject. There's just not a lot of people who write about the HP 11720A pulse generator...
I blog about functional programming (haskell, clojure), but also emacs org-mode, thing like these. I sometimes tell myself I should invest more time to write down more about my thoughts there.
Mostly I help developers grow — I share my thoughts as a CTO about building digital products, growing teams, scaling development and in general being a good technical founder.
All roughly related to software engineering, weekly cadence. Sometimes philosophical, sometimes technical, sometimes just random observations. Mostly it's about whatever is on my mind re: software at the moment or what I'm playing around with at the time.
I don't read the comments on discussion forums usually, but emails I will always read and respond to emails and I'm always grateful for the feedback.
Flutter Tech Blog : https://widgettricks.substack.com
A Flutter newsletter to share tips, tricks and techniques to build beautiful and maintainable mobile apps with Flutter.
https://raesene.github.io/ - these days, I generally blog about security/containers/k8s stuff that's interesting to me, and not suitable for a corporate blog, although it goes back to other stuff, as I've been posting at varying levels of regularity for almost 20 years now.
https://xenodium.comhttps://xenodium.com/rss.xml will hit 10 years in November. It started as a single org file for personal notes (programming, cooking, Emacs, bookmarks, iOS dev, travel). One day, I decided to export it to HTML and make it accessible to me from anywhere. Sorta just became both notes and blog over time…
While the tone of the posts may have evolved a bit, the blog still serves as personal notes/reference of sorts. The tech behind it hasn’t changed a whole lot. It remains a single org file (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/xenodium/xenodium.github.i...) with my own ugly elisp hacks, but hey does the job ;-)
I write about a variety of topics including reverse engineering, amateur radio, digital signal processing, cryptography, machine learning, IT security etc.
Just a static site built with Jekyll, along with some custom Jekyll plugins.
It is a blog that focuses on jobs, careers, and the workplace, started 10 years ago and receives about two million visits worldwide every month. https://confessionsoftheprofessions.com
Wow, just realized it passed its 21st anniversary last month. A few iterations throughout the years, but the current form is basically 13-ish years old, regularly updated.
If this is what you actually do for a living, and have done for any substantial amount of time, I have to congratulate you for reminding me what envy feels like.
And if your real job is something more mainstream and this is just a side project, then I have to congratulate you for making it look like you have had all the time in the world to put into it.
But above all that I'm just happy that something like this exists, it feels like what the web should have grown into more broadly, back when it looked like everyone was going to make their mark on the world by meticuloudly curating something interesting about themselves to share with the rest of us.
https://medium.com/@oandreasc/ not writing much anymore but I should continue, there are many articles that I want to write and at the end they end up as threads in twitter, I should definitely go back to blogging.
It's intentionally obtuse, like ripping out the first page out of a notebook, so that I don't have an excuse _not_ to fill out the rest of the pages. It's already ruined, so what is a bit more ruin, really?
I'm not trying to be the superlative at anything, but simply want to capture the traffic of anyone following in my footsteps, easing their path if that's possible.
it's a mix of whatever is on my mind, but something I think this group would like is my "The Roboticist's Library" where I review books I've read that have influenced how I approach problem solving professionally.
Been off and on with blogs over my journey in tech (from blogspot to rolling my own custom static blog generator). Recently I decided to give it another go and this time using HashNode (I considered substack but its lack of code blocks turned me off). So far just one blog post there, but it's a start:
I've been on here a daily for several years now (you can tell when I'm really working on something because there are gaps in my comment history. E.g. the last two weeks or so I've been mucking about with my land.) Every once in a while I do a narcissistic trawl through my own comments and I feel like they're a pretty good representation of what I'm like and what I'm about.
I have a small Gemini "capsule" (site) gemini://sforman.srht.site/ that gets translated to HTML/HTTP at: https://sforman.srht.site/ I call it a blog but I haven't added anything recently.
I'm in the beginning stages of creating a mutual-benefit non-profit corporation to supply ecologically-harmonious homes at extremely low cost. I'm talking about systems that provide food, shelter, clothing, much medicine, energy, etc. automatically with minimal labor and oversight. We have all the technology already, it's just a matter of putting the elements together. So come watch or participate in that? ;)
Trying to break down big opportunities in big markets. Going to be doing some pieces in coming weeks on commercialising research and forgotten ideas from history that could still be viable startups today.
For the past 2.5 years, I've published summaries of each month as it ends, so on 2023-06-30, I published a summary of June 2023. Each post has the following:
- Narrative Introduction;
- Podcasts reviews (each review is 25 words or fewer);
- Nerdy Software (25 words or fewer on a piece of software I like);
- Bougie Products (25 words or fewer on a product I like);
- Personal Finance and Investing (advice in 25 words or fewer);
- Reading (each review is 25 words or fewer);
- A List.
The name of my blog comes from a quote that inspires me: "In music, as in everything, the disappearing moment of experience is the firmest reality." (Benjamin Boretz)
Recently started writing regularly. Have decided to focus on technical nuances and programming mental models learned the hard way, things I wish I knew in college or early career.
I've been trying to write more consistently (2x month) since the beginning of the year about startup and tech topics in general. I like to share experiences and perspective over organisational, hiring and product topics.
I always liked to do it and had a old Wordpress website, but now I decided to code it from scratch to make the blogging experience simpler. Allowing me to drag and drop Word files over the page to create articles. I also blogged about that!
I'm a productivity consultant so I write about productivity and how to be intentional about how you spend your time, energy, and attention in all parts of your life.
I’ma programming languages researcher, so most of my posts are about that. I also write (too much) about Emacs. Education figures in my posts as well. I try to write one to two posts a month; that doesn’t always work out. I’ve got an RSS feed. The colophon explains how I make my blog: https://lambdaland.org/docs/about/#colophon
A selection of fun tidbits from my work, focused on graphics programming and performance. It's largely written in a slightly less technical detail so I can share it with friends and family.
There's still two things I want to write from Wavetale (rendering and optimisation of the water), but those are more ambitious and technical, so I haven't gotten around to it, yet.
Started life on uboot.com (does anyone remember that?) then migrated to WordPress, and now Hugo.
The only articles which really get any hits any more are those where I've specifically solved problems I was having, i.e. posts which are similar to Stack Overflow answers. I guess people search for the error messages and find my articles, so that's search working as intended I guess.
If I write anything else e.g. my thoughts on software development, it's still a useful exercise to focus the mind, and I can send the article to a few mates and they might read it, but that's it, no hits from Google etc.
Back in the days of Google Reader I used to have some readers via RSS, and I used to follow a number of interesting blogs from various individuals I'd found. Those were nice times, but I guess they're over.
It used to be a separate website, but since becoming a principal investigator and starting my own group, I have integrated it into the group website. I mostly write about academic research/teaching and open-source software/principles/evangelization.
My personal favorite overall is the post from 2015 https://gaseri.org/en/blog/2015-09-14-what-is-the-price-of-o... where I wrote about proprietary and open-source software in computational chemistry by debunking an article from American Chemical Society's Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters.
But I like my real adventure where I got trapped in my car next to a leapoard, maybe everyone will find it boring but there is a terrible video I took with proof.
Recently started writing regularly. Have decided to focus on technical nuances and programming mental models learned the hard way, things I wish I knew in college or early career.
I journal ideas and thoughts about computers and software. I am interested in software architecture, parallelism, async, coroutines, database internals, programming language implementation, software design and the web.
Been off and on with blogging but next half of 2023 really committing to at least posting more monthly retrospectives and hopefully more articles .
In the past I've written more technical articles but going forward I'll be writing more articles about boostrapping , indie hacking, and software entrepeneurship which I am full time focused on
My most popular Hacker News posts were
Simplest App That Makes Money : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34101016 (213 points, 94 comments) - post about making simple and monetizable apps as an indie hacking starting point
Both of those articles were somewhat controversial and I am no longer working on the first app in question nor anything in crypto. The controversy of both posts was a small factor in me deciding to focus on other things. But I guess controversy gets views since they are by far my most popular posts. But going forward hoping to get the views without the controversy by just posting useful stuff (although even then, I thought my Django vs NextJS post was as tame as it gets and I got a shocking amount of hate mail for that one).
Sometimes I get excited about different topics and niches which I unload by writing in my blog so it's a collection of whatever I find interesting. Here are some categories and tags to try to keep everything organized:
Do you have an RSS feed? I am currently trying to consume more Finnish text to aid in my language learning. I feel that your blog would aid me as I also have interests in what you blog about.
Recently started writing regularly. Have decided to focus on technical nuances and programming mental models learned the hard way, things I wish I knew in college or early career.
Travel, life (in Taiwan), programming (especially my journey from a coding bootcamp to a relatively successful software engineering career for 6 years now), philosophy, motorcycling, digital nomad stuff
I started NLJ back in 2020. It is built with WordPress (hosted on Hetzner VPS and managed with Cloudron). I have published more than 800 articles and 350 short-form posts (almost all posts by me, but my friend has published 30something articles). I write about whatever interests me (I tell myself this means there is something for everyone). Common topics include, but are not limited to, tech (digital ownership, open source software, feeds, and my learning Linux), history (usually American or Roman), old books and poems, anime, visual novels (mainly English translations of freeware NScripter/KiriKiri novels), photos from my walks, fictional dialogues, and occasional commentary about life in NYC.
I am testing out Memos (https://github.com/usememos/memos) for short-form notes and microblog-style posts, but very much a side project next to NLJ. Neat little tool.
A site about the most effective techniques to improve your memory, intelligence, and effectiveness. Built with a custom software stack, want to put more time into it soon.
Selection of posts:
· Adults learn faster than children: challenging a discouraging myth that children are suited for learning more than adults. (https://wetware.engineering/adult-learning)
Mostly about UI design and IT management (management sounds boring I know but I hope they're useful articles. Good, I think, for us who are managers here -- and us who are managed!)
I'm particularly happy with the design of the site: I'd love to hear what readers think of the layout and typography. My CSS style is called 'manuscript' and it's very inspired by older book and manuscript look and feel.
There is zero Javascript and ZERO cookies or tracking. None at all.
I write weekly on https://connortumbleson.com using Ghost. Started as a new years resolution I've kept just discussing what crosses my life or mind. My favorite posts:
I do a monthly post with very short reviews of [audio]books I've read. Occassional other posts about tech, transport and random stuff. Trying to get out some more shorter tech posts.
Articles on software architecture. I'm also looking to make new friends to discuss these topics. Working remotely in my 30s from a not-major-city makes this difficult. In my blog there's a place to leave your email if you'd be up for it.
Near 400 posts, writing about a lot of stuff. Here's some of my favorites over the years:
- https://xeiaso.net/blog/anything-message-queue - Anything can be a message queue if you use it wrongly enough
- https://xeiaso.net/blog/a-weapon-to-surpass-metal-gear - A weapon to surpass Metal Gear
- https://xeiaso.net/blog/%F0%9F%A5%BA - : the best sudo replacement
- https://xeiaso.net/blog/sleeping-the-technical-interview - Sleeping Through the Technical Interview
- https://xeiaso.net/blog/experimental-rilkef-2018-11-30 - I Put Words on this Webpage so You Have to Listen to Me Now
https://xeiaso.net/feeds to subscribe. Been considering an email list.