From cdf43d4aac72535f834ba55fb88475fcad46e24e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: wgroeneveld Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2023 13:02:58 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] on writing for yourself in public: typos --- content/post/2023/11/on-writing-for-yourself-in-public.md | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/post/2023/11/on-writing-for-yourself-in-public.md b/content/post/2023/11/on-writing-for-yourself-in-public.md index 409fd461..c894f6b1 100644 --- a/content/post/2023/11/on-writing-for-yourself-in-public.md +++ b/content/post/2023/11/on-writing-for-yourself-in-public.md @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ tags: - blogging --- -I've had an interesting conversation with [Mr Creosote](https://dosgame.club/@mr_creosote) at Mastodon a few months ago that lingered in the cavernous debts of my subconsciousness until another related thought dragged it back up. Mr Creosote is the founder of [The Good Old Days](https://www.goodolddays.net/), a befriended retro game review website that---and this is the beginning of the problem---gets almost no views. +I've had an interesting conversation with [Mr Creosote](https://dosgame.club/@mr_creosote) on Mastodon a few months ago that lingered in the cavernous debts of my subconsciousness until another related thought dragged it back up. Mr Creosote is the founder of [The Good Old Days](https://www.goodolddays.net/), a befriended retro game review website that---and this is the beginning of the problem---gets almost no views. The Good Old Days has been around [in various shapes and forms since 2000](https://www.goodolddays.net/article/id%2C-11/): it is no stranger to text-based internet publishing, and yet, according to Mr Creosote, nowadays, almost nobody cares. One of the major causes could very much be the shift towards video game reviews on a certain singular huge hosted platform. The decline in visits caused the following question to pop up: @@ -37,4 +37,4 @@ Writing in public with low monthly visitor counts has the additional benefit of But yes, I admit: I still prefer _one_ mail over no mail at all. As Henrik Karlsson writes, _a blog post is a very long and complex search query to find fascinating people and [make them route interesting stuff to your inbox](https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/search-query)_. I still prefer writing in public, thereby hopefully positively influencing my little community the same way as my little community influences me. -Others approach writing in public differently. For example, Julia Evans' [tactics for writing in public](https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/08/07/tactics-for-writing-in-public/) can act as advice for very technical howto-like writers. These do not align with how I envision the act of _brain baking_, but these might make much more sense than the rubbish you're currently reading. +Others approach writing in public differently. For example, Julia Evans' [tactics for writing in public](https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/08/07/tactics-for-writing-in-public/) can act as sound advice for very technical howto-like writers. For me, these do not align with how I envision the act of _brain baking_, but for you, these might make much more sense than the rubbish you're currently reading.