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100%. I didn't mean this to be a "woe is me" piece, despite the clickbait-y title. I just wanted to talk about the merits of publishing your writing without any actual readers. And some lessons on writing I've picked up.

I do it. I write[0], because it helps me to understand stuff better (tutorials), or because I work on "gut instinct," a lot, and writing it in a manner that explains it, forces me to "formalize" things.

My stuff is too TL;DR, for most folks, these days.

[0] https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany


completely agree

yea, I'm not saying there's no place for that phrase ever. But overusing it was a bad habit of mine and it ends up being unnecessary filler. My wording there was a bit exaggerated.

TG;DR?


*Homer Sapiens


I thought this was an Onion article. Wow.


this. They don't even do an exact string match of the artist name, the reason why I can't fathom. I could make a new artist account named "drake" (lowercase d) today and probably show up in a million Release Radar playlists by next week.


it's a reference point? The article isn't comparing to some platonic ideal of what men's testosterone levels should be...it's just pointing out a statistically significant decrease in those levels over a period of 20 years


https://thejoeflow.com/blog

I write about...books. I don't think there's much point to reading it unless you've already read the book I'm talking about.

I mostly do it because I found I use to read books and then never talk about them or think about them afterwards so I would just forget about the book after a little while. I figured that writing something down about the book would help clarify my thoughts on it and I could remember it better.

I also wanted to build something with spring boot and kotlin so this was it.


Is there anywhere on your site where I can see a complete list of your reviews in one place? I like your essays, I occasionally do the same thing and I think it has made me a more attentive reader.


No - unfortunately you can only do so by clicking on the "Archive" dropdown and browsing through the years/months...something I will add soon though!

Appreciate the feedback


I ended up implementing a primitive tag cloud[0] to keep track of different topics.

[0] https://sheep.horse/tagcloud.html#book


That's a nice feature. I would also have to start tagging my posts I guess haha.


Songkick, and spotify for that matter, already do that


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