If your definition of a return on your blogging/writing investment is how many likes you got, you're doing it for the wrong reasons.
I am in no way a good writer, and I don't have an audience, however a few of the articles I've published on my personal site have resulted in a small number of extremely high quality responses from almost exactly the people I wanted to reach. For example, I wrote a review of an insulin pump and received a reply a few days later from a director at the company thanking me for the review and that he was sharing it with his team.
So I'd say blogging can absolutely can pay off, if you think of it in terms of making connections with the right people over time.
It’s not just David Lynch’s own coffee drinking. Making coffee (“there was a fish in the percolator!”) and drinking coffee was one of the most memorable aspects of the original Twin Peaks TV series.
Totally agree. There should be a digital consumer bill of rights, that includes the right to disable autoplaying videos. Even the NYTimes home page is plastered with them these days, it’s awful. Another one is control over sort order, having the option of “most recent first”, vs. “most likely to keep you here”.
The point was that we should have some kind of social contract that pushes back against the worst known addictive product choices, and to create public awareness about them. Mobile Safari has some limited functionality built-in like "Hide Distracting Items" and reader mode, but it's not enough. iOS has Accessibility > Motion > Auto-Play Video Previews, but that seems to only impact Messages.
It's also an argument to protect the rights of the actual owner of the site. I'll put whatever I want on my website, and you can come to or not. I don't need a bill of rights that limits my freedom of expression. I will present my voice in any fashion I see fit on my website.
Use a browser that allows you to modify the content in a way that presents the content you want. That's the boundary you have to play with. My computer gives the information I want to your computer. Your computer does what it wants with that information.
If your OS doesn't allow you to use a browser of your choice, then that is the restriction you attack. Not mine.
You are free to do whatever you want with your website. This is about the limited number of platforms where communities exist online these days, and how those platforms knowingly using addictive and harmful UX patterns to keep people hooked. I think you and I deserve some level of consumer protection from that.
Dude, your tool does so much than just run ssh commands. I just took a quick glance at your project, just wanted to know does this have support for vultr?
LEGO is based off of earlier designs of interlocking bricks, they are well known because they got really good at affordability, high tolerances, and durability not because they invented the concept. Beyond that the original functional patents have long expired.
sorry! that might get me in trouble. i didn't get in trouble for registering the alias, though i did remove it after getting one too many disturbing emails.
that didn't stop me from registering it again at my next employer, where i received more complaints, but in this case they were less out there and i actually knew the people who could do something about them (smaller company, support shadowing shifts), and there i was eventually able to wire the alias into their official process after forwarding enough of them to the people i knew.
I havent seen that service before, but it's probably similar. Though they seem to let you still pay for certain features, which Bracket doesn't because all code I wrote is indeed public.
> With such huge upfront fixed costs it only makes sense to build luxury.
You really believe that if there were less upfront fixed costs, that developers wouldn’t still default to building “luxury” as long as nothing was stopping them? The profit margin incentives are all still the same, regardless of the level of community/political opposition.
when fixed costs are high you want to invest more to raise the final price. The lower the fixed costs the less sense it makes to build the most expensive thing you can.
there are only so many people looking for those units. As more units are built the competition to sell those units will heat up. Either prices drop on those units, or theyre replaced by units that are cheaper to build. Right now they can sell all the luxury units they build so no reason to build anything else. So removing the barriers doesnt itself make luxury less appealing for developers, but it increases the number of units built and that makes luxury less appealing for developers. It will still make sense to build luxury, but it wont make sense to build only luxury.
There are other reasons too. Personally I would not mind living in communist style blocks and I know some others agree. If it was legal to build those they might be created because you can fit so many more units on a plot compared to luxury housing.
I say this as someone with an extremely negative opinion of Facebook/Meta/Zuck: there are communities that only exist on Facebook, in the form of private groups. If you want to reach those communities, you have no other choice but to meet them where they are. Same problem with Twitter/X...
I am in no way a good writer, and I don't have an audience, however a few of the articles I've published on my personal site have resulted in a small number of extremely high quality responses from almost exactly the people I wanted to reach. For example, I wrote a review of an insulin pump and received a reply a few days later from a director at the company thanking me for the review and that he was sharing it with his team.
So I'd say blogging can absolutely can pay off, if you think of it in terms of making connections with the right people over time.