[gowld]

Journaling is great. It helps organize your thinking.

Why do you publish, if not to reach readers? If you want to reach readers, why not put some effort into that part too?

[jacquesm]

I write to organize my thoughts and sometimes that writing is useful to others and then I publish it. But that's more like 1:50 or so these days, most of the stuff I do I'm pretty sure nobody would be interested in. Last week's project: to recreate an old Romanian kitchen implement. I highly doubt anybody would be interested in something like that.

[waldothedog]

I’d be interested, should you ever decide to post that content!

[jacquesm]

Hah, serves me right :) It's a wooden mallet/knife combo that is used to mash eggplant, nothing special really but you can't just go out and buy them here. So I chopped one out of a piece of acacia wood and then endless sanding to get it to as close as the original as I could.

This the real thing:

https://www.dedeman.ro/ro/tocator-pentru-vinete-lemn-euro-sa...

And here is my clone:

https://imgur.com/a/ikAXbyB

If you want an SVG for the outline let me know (mail in profile).

That's four hours of work, most of it spent on sanding, Acacia is pretty hard.

[gowld]

I bet there are 7 subreddits focused on topics that embrace old Romanian kitchen implements.

[ryukoposting]

I did put effort into that - I built an RSS feed for my site. In fact, if you use a well-behaved reader with partial fetching, I'll even include the full text of each article.