Posts tagged "writing"
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Six Pages Was Never Proof of Anything
The mourning for Amazon's writing culture confuses two claims. Writing as thinking is true and survives AI. Writing as evidence was always false. The successor to word count is not shorter documents, it is accountable ones.
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Where a Blog Post Goes
A post reached TLDR, Hacker News, curated reading lists, search engines, and work chats. The interesting part of the analytics was the variety of ways people found it.
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Software Doesn't Have to Justify Itself, or the Joy of Useless Programming
Software does not always have to justify itself as a product or a startup. Sometimes it is just a creative medium, and a silly Discourse plugin is the proof.
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Six numbers from my blog's analytics
I dug into the GoatCounter database for my blog. Single-day spikes, fastest risers, fastest first month, two kinds of streaks, and where readers actually come from.
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How my blog started getting indexed
Two months of consistent publishing got me indexed by Google, DuckDuckGo, Bing, ChatGPT, and Perplexity. No SEO, no backlinks, no keywords. Just technical writing with real titles, internal links, and clean structure.
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I Don't Type Every Word You Read
Most modern work is already mediated by machines. Writing is just late to admit it. On delegating friction, not thinking.