Comment by wannabebarista
Comment by wannabebarista 5 days ago
I write a blog to share projects and to have a single place to point people to (that can be accessed without an account).
I share some of my posts on HN such as annual interesting books [0] and articles [1] lists. But my main source of new readers recently has been from chatbots. This has led to the interesting scenario where many posts more than six months old get regular traffic, while traffic on new posts depends on a link getting shared somewhere. I'm guessing it's due to how often my website is getting scraped for training data.
As for motivation, I still get a rush from receiving an email that someone enjoyed a book I recommended or some code I wrote helped them solve a problem.