Upgrade to Pro
— share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …
Speaker Deck
Features
Speaker Deck
PRO
Sign in
Sign up for free
Search
Search
Blogging myths
Search
Julia Evans
December 10, 2020
0
3.1k
Blogging myths
Julia Evans
December 10, 2020
Tweet
Share
More Decks by Julia Evans
See All by Julia Evans
Learning DNS in 10 years
jvns
0
140
High Reliability Infrastructure migrations
jvns
10
13k
Building a Ruby profiler
jvns
2
330
Build impossible programs
jvns
23
93k
So you want to be a wizard
jvns
25
24k
Learning systems programming with Rust
jvns
14
7.2k
Systems programming is for everyone
jvns
13
2.9k
How to read your computer's mind
jvns
6
760
Why I ❤ Rust
jvns
50
52k
Featured
See All Featured
Optimising Largest Contentful Paint
csswizardry
28
2.7k
ParisWeb 2013: Learning to Love: Crash Course in Emotional UX Design
dotmariusz
109
6.9k
The Cost Of JavaScript in 2023
addyosmani
39
5.1k
Rails Girls Zürich Keynote
gr2m
93
13k
Reflections from 52 weeks, 52 projects
jeffersonlam
346
20k
Music & Morning Musume
bryan
46
6k
Dealing with People You Can't Stand - Big Design 2015
cassininazir
363
22k
"I'm Feeling Lucky" - Building Great Search Experiences for Today's Users (#IAC19)
danielanewman
225
22k
Templates, Plugins, & Blocks: Oh My! Creating the theme that thinks of everything
marktimemedia
24
2k
How to Ace a Technical Interview
jacobian
275
23k
Statistics for Hackers
jakevdp
793
220k
Cheating the UX When There Is Nothing More to Optimize - PixelPioneers
stephaniewalter
278
13k
Transcript
blogging myths demo EIEoYEEoh
me or 7 years of blogging 500 posts
myths you need to be original you need to be
an expert posts should be 100 correct you need to explain every concept page views matter
myth you need I l l l l l l
to be ringing
reality nobody has read the entire Internet
reality you only need to show people something new totem
i eh is O O Y wows TY Tf jogger
myth you need to be an expert in the topic
reality you just need to know I 2 things the
reader doesn't
how to get a core dump for a Seg fault
on Linux
Myth posts need to be 100 correct I
reality just get someone to check for Very Wrong Facts
you're fine
the correctness tradeoff a ta me P sublish always be
fast totally
myth good bloggers never write bad posts
reality people ignore unclear writing 0 0 shared 0 A
o o o ro fades into obscurity 0 O
8 Too
myth you need to explain every concept
advanced post about networking i
beginner uh I don't understand this advanced stuff advanced I'm
bored why person are you explaining network packet
writing for everyone actually means writing for nobody
pick 1 person write for them to your friend yourself
2 years ago
myth page views matter peek
Reality comments page views
0 N on How to teach taisukemino yourself hard things
Hey, @b0rk. Just wanted to let you know that this post really helped me to improve my skill of understanding a complex concept. Thanks! :)
myths you need to be original you need to be
an expert posts should be 100 correct you need to explain every concept page views matter
writing review
None
None
None
None
None
None