[mark_l_watson]

All true. 25 or 30 years ago I would manually visit specific people’s web sites to see what new stuff they posted. That was not as inconvenient as you might think. The density of information I wanted on the 100 or so sites I had bookmarked was higher than now by far. Blogs used to handle notifications well.

Now, I basically depend on X and even on Facebook to shout out when I have a new book or open source project I want people to check out. This is far from perfect, but requires little of my time. For me to keep producing reading and code content, I feel like I need about 1000 to 2000 ‘true fans’ and I think I have that so I am happy.

For most young people starting to build a web presense, I think it must be much more difficult to get started. Still, I notice some young people creating amazing open source projects and they can create a living pretty quickly. I enjoy reading code as much as the words people write.

[recursive]

> For most young people starting to build a web presense, I think it must be much more difficult to get started.

I don't think age has anything to do with it. I'm in my 40s. I haven't used twitter, facebook, instagram, or whatever's cool now in at least a year. At this point, I feel like I wouldn't even know how to get started. Luckily, I'm not trying to build a personal brand.

[fzzzy]

I think even netscape 4 and maybe even earlier had the ability to scan all your bookmarks and mark pages that changed.

[xk3]

> manually visit specific people’s web sites to see what new stuff they posted

RSS is nice but I've started to do this as well. Something like this works across all sites:

> The main benefit of tabs is that you can have a large amount of tabs saved (say 500 monthly tabs) and only the smallest amount of tabs to satisfy that goal (500/30) tabs will open each day. 17 tabs per day seems manageable--500 all at once does not.

https://github.com/chapmanjacobd/library?tab=readme-ov-file#...