▲ | dewey 5 days ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Define "worth it", but I've written a blog post about some printer driver issue two years ago and it now happened twice that someone (Older person, not very technical) reached out over email and asked for some further help and I could walk them step by step through using a Terminal, booting into macOS recovery mode and fixing the issue. The Apple store and Epson told them to do a clean install so they were very grateful and it made me happy that I could help them. Worth it for me! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
▲ | theshrike79 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
I think the issue nowadays is that people expect to have a MILLION FOLLOWERS and a revenue stream and a personal brand and and... In the ye olden days people just blogged about stuff they found interesting. If nobody read it, it was still out there for someone to find. I can remember multiple times where finding some obscure blog helped me debug an issue I had. Now it's all hidden in Reddit or even worse in TikTok or Youtube videos that won't get indexed properly. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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▲ | jmclnx 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Yes, define "worth it". If you want thousands of people reading it, probably not. If you just want it there for posterity, I would say yes. In that case maybe see if it is in the wayback machine. I have moved my site to gemini with a gopher mirror, I find that far easier to maintain and I do not really care who or if anyone sees it :) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
▲ | nicce 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
If the "worth it" includes provable portfolio of skills, I don't know a better place than series of well-written blog posts. Other "worth it" could be the development of your writing skills, documenting own learning path and so on. Maybe something can be even useful for you as well later on. If you think "worth it" as a way to get attention, get job offers automatically e.g., likely not worth it unless it gets HN front page. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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▲ | raudette 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
I wrote an article on how to resolve ink blobs smearing onto a page for Epson Expression printers years ago - just based on the people who've written me (which is just a fraction of the number that have found and viewed the page), I've extended the life of many Epson printers. |