[mrspeaker]

My blog has been going since 2004, I add between 3 and 20 posts a year. I write the articles for me, in the future. I enjoy writing, and I'm pretty much the only person who will ever read the posts. I don't care if zero other people read it. I certainly don't do it for internet points. It's my blog for me.

I love going back and reading stuff from nearly 20 years ago... like a little tech diary. On a bunch of occasions I've used it as a reference when I remembered "I did something like this 10 years ago..." and dig up the posts.

Oddly, its also help me get my last two jobs too - in the interview, someone found something on my blog (that they looked at that morning before I came in) and we've had a conversation about it. The topics weren't directly related to the position, but showed my interests (Like, a post on a small webgl voxel thing I made helped get me a job at a mainframe company!).

I can choose where I want to work now, so I feel like my blog is a helpful filter: if a potential employee doesn't like my blog, it's probably not a good fit for either of us.

[cyberge99]

I’ve use my blog as my personal internet garden. People can come by, look around, whatever; and I document things I’ve worked on or howto’s etc. There have a more than a few times that I’ve actually referenced my own blog to look something up in my own domain expertise.

[dcchambers]

Internet garden is the perfect way to phrase it. I largely maintain my various "public" websites for myself, but if other people happen to come by and enjoy what they see, good for them.

[Derbasti]

That's exactly how I feel as well. I blog for my own benefit. If anyone else finds it useful, too, that's great. But it's not the goal.

In a way, my blog serves as a platform to develop my own ideas into full arguments, even where they are only of interest to me.

And because writing is fun!

[xtracto]

Personal Blogging is one of the few remaining bastions of the old 90s web. When people put stuff in the web for fun, to share and without any ulterior motive.

My blog doesn't have ads /monetization and never will. I also dont care if anyone reads it or not .

We should bring back a web-ring of non-monetized personal sites haha.

[cpach]

Web-rings have actually returned the last few years :) I haven’t joined one, but it’s still nice to see them back.

Example: https://fediring.net/

[fendale]

I’m kind of similar. I write up how I set something up or some strange problem I solved mainly for my own reference but if it also helps someone else, great. Once or twice I’ve Googled a problem and landed on the solution in my own blog or a stack overflow post I made years ago!

[shetill]

why don't you create private Notion then