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I found myself saying the following a few times during #CSSDay when chatting to people about blogging, so here it goes: If you want a blog but don’t believe you have anything to share, I suggest creating a monthly post of a roundup of articles you read and recommend. By the end of the year, you will have 12 blog posts. It gives you a list of everything you’ve learned. It is easily findable if you want to share it with others in conversation. Backlinks and webmentions build connections.

Why share technical stuff online? You never know how they may become useful to others! 10 months ago I found a fix to an Eleventy issue I had. I documented it on my website in my /snacks section. https://hamatti.org/snacks/fix-templatecontent-too-early-in-eleventy/ Today, I noticed someone having the same issue on 11ty Discord and went to share it. And then I found out that Christopher had already shared my solution in the issue and it had helped them! https://github.com/11ty/eleventy/issues/3136#issuecomment-2087875164 Contributing to #opensource through docs and blogs is good!

What makes a great technical blog

One of my favourite things to do in my free time is to tinker with this website. Indeed, this website is the culmination of years of tinkering. I have added features like coffee shop maps that I can share with friends, a way for me to share my bio in two languages, a sitemap.xml file to help search engines find pages on my website, and more.

Attached: 1 image Statistics from 14 years of #Blogging.

LinkedIn is prompting users with strange questions to contribute to collaborative articles. What is it all about?

Exactly eight years ago, I published “Hello there!” on this website. Since then, I have published hundreds of articles. Persistent writing is excellent for many reasons and is the best thing I have ever done for my personal and professional development.

This is the 7th edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have Ana …

My decision to start a capital-B Blog (as opposed to microblogging, which I've been doing since I was a wee one on The Tumbler) was largely spur-of-the-momen...

The list of sites I follow in Feedly has long ago shifted from personal blogs to larger, specialized news websites. The personal blogs have disappeared for the same reason this one did. Why would anyone want to share personal information this way, when social media is easier to use, more specific, more widely-used, and has a … Continued

Back in the early days of blogging, the tech press bashed RSS out of existence as it was supposedly too complex for ordinary users. To th...

Save yourself time in the long run by spending a bit more time documenting things up front.

Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and developer from Stuttgart, Germany. Besides design practice he teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Kiel.

Ending #blogeverydamnday with a cheer ✨

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And that’s great. It’s also the return of Google Reader! Mastodon is really confusing for newcomers. There are memes about it. If you’re an internet user of a certain age, …

A blog is an easy way to write on the web. Here's how to get started.

Every single day, I receive at least one email asking if I’ll accept cash for adding a link to someone’s website in an old post. I won’t. Not ever. Please stop asking. I can imagine a world where, if …

Want to know the secret to blogging more often? Lower your standards! A post which you don't think is ready yet is a LOT better than a giant folder full of drafts that no-one ever gets to see (Your readers won't ever know how good the thing you wanted to write would have been)

Simon Willison (@simonw)Wed, 12 Jan 2022 16:23 GMT

https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1578049269193285633

And as always: one big secret to writing more is to lower your standards Published but "could have been better" is massively more valuable than something that eternally sits in your drafts

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Want to know the secret to blogging more often? Lower your standards! A post which you don't think is ready yet is a LOT better than a giant folder full of drafts that no-one ever gets to see (Your readers won't ever know how good the thing you wanted to write would have been)

Simon Willison (@simonw)Wed, 12 Jan 2022 16:23 GMT

Simon Willison (@simonw)Thu, 06 Oct 2022 15:49 +0000

Posted on 2022-09-12