blogging

An essay celebrating the non-corporate, original-style web of the 1990s and early 2000s, advocating for personal websites, simple design, and indie web practices, while criticizing modern corporate takeover and AI hype.

The author reflects on their use of AI for coding versus choosing to write manually, emphasizing the value of preserving human originality in creative expression.

A study tracking 100 once-successful blogs reveals that the majority lost 85% of their Google search traffic by 2026, marking the collapse of the ad-and-affiliate-driven blogging model. Only 21 blogs continue to grow, often by offering experiences that cannot be AI-summarized.

Pieter Levels analyzes his blog stats and finds that negative content performs about 1.5x better than positive content, while curious content ranks second. He shares detailed sentiment and emotion data from his 743 posts.

Bashblog is a single bash script that lets you create a static blog from the command line with zero dependencies, supporting Markdown, RSS, tags, and comments.

A reflection on the value of stating the obvious in blogging, using John Gruber's critique of annoying website popups as an example.

Nashra is a product that combines email newsletters, blogging, and landing pages specifically for experts.

Bubbles.town is a Hacker News-style aggregator for independent blogs, ranking posts by votes and freshness.

The author deletes their popular blog post comparing Nix flakes and Guix equivalents after being accused by Andrew Tropin of using an LLM to write it, expressing devastation and the decision to remove the post.

A discussion about using an LLM as a writing assistant for blogging, shared on Lobste.rs.

Tech columnist Robert X Cringely announces he is writing again after a three-year hiatus, with plans to continue covering AI and technology topics.

Simon Willison documents how he built a 'Sightings' feature on his blog using Claude Code for web to syndicate his iNaturalist wildlife photos, back-populating over a decade of sightings.

RankSpot is an AI-driven SEO blog tool that leverages deep competitor intelligence to help users create optimized content.