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I follow this religiously. The process of posting is manual but it works fairly well if your intention is good and you're not blog spamming in different forums.

by rednafi 6mo ago

I follow this religiously. The process of posting is manual but it works fairly well if your intention is good and you're not blog spamming in different forums. But I intentionally haven't added a comment section to my blog [1]. Mostly because I don't get paid to write there and addressing the comments - even the good ones - requires a ton of energy. Also, scaling the comment section is a pain. I had disqus integrated into my Hugo site but it became a mess when people started having actual discussion and the section got longer and longer. If the write ups are any useful, it generally appears here or reddit and I often link back those discussions in the articles. That's good enough for me. [1]: https://rednafi.com https://rednafi.com

alemwjsl 6mo ago
Nice blog, thanks for this one: https://rednafi.com/go/splintered-failure-modes/ https://rednafi.com/go/splintered-failure-modes/. Well written - I only need to read that once and now remembered it.
avsm 6mo ago
> If the write ups are any useful, it generally appears here or reddit and I often link back those discussions in the articles Totally agree, I do the same as well on my site; e.g.: https://anil.recoil.org/notes/tessera-zarr-v3-layout https://anil.recoil.org/notes/tessera-zarr-v3-layout There are quite a few useful linkbacks: - The social urls (bluesky, mastodon, twitter, linkedin, hn, lobsters etc) are just in my Yaml frontmatter as a key - Then there's standard.site which is an ATProto registration that gets an article into that ecosystem https://standard-search.octet-stream.net https://standard-search.octet-stream.net - And for longer articles I get a DOI from https://rogue-scholar.org https://rogue-scholar.org (the above URL is also https://doi.org/10.59350/tk0er-ycs46 https://doi.org/10.59350/tk0er-ycs46) which gets it a bit more metadata. On my TODO list is aggregating all the above into one static comment thread that I can render. Not sure it's worth the trouble beyond linking to each network as I'm currently doing, since there's rarely any cross-network conversations anyway.
- rednafi 6mo ago
  Damn. I got a bunch of idea around atproto from this comment. Also found out your blog. I wish digging out human written blogs wasn't such a chore. I like the idea of blogs but their discoverability sucks big time.
  - pivic 6mo ago
    I like Kagi's small web initiative to help people find personal sites: https://blog.kagi.com/small-web-updates https://blog.kagi.com/small-web-updates
BeetleB 6mo ago
> If the write ups are any useful, it generally appears here or reddit and I often link back those discussions in the articles. That's good enough for me. If you have a Mastodon account, you can embed all responses to your Mastodon post into your site. See https://blog.nawaz.org/posts/2025/Jan/adding-fediverse-comments-to-my-static-site/ https://blog.nawaz.org/posts/2025/Jan/adding-fediverse-comme...
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wps 6mo ago
I just use HN as my comment platform. I have a Hugo short code that (very respectfully!) grabs the comments on a full rebuild, but only if those comments are not already cached and if the post is less than 7 days old. The formatting looks quite good on my site. Feel free to check it out at the bottom of this post: https://mketab.org/blog/sqlite_kdbx https://mketab.org/blog/sqlite_kdbx

by rednafi 6mo ago

alemwjsl 6mo ago

Nice blog, thanks for this one: https://rednafi.com/go/splintered-failure-modes/ https://rednafi.com/go/splintered-failure-modes/. Well written - I only need to read that once and now remembered it.

avsm 6mo ago

> If the write ups are any useful, it generally appears here or reddit and I often link back those discussions in the articles Totally agree, I do the same as well on my site; e.g.: https://anil.recoil.org/notes/tessera-zarr-v3-layout https://anil.recoil.org/notes/tessera-zarr-v3-layout There are quite a few useful linkbacks: - The social urls (bluesky, mastodon, twitter, linkedin, hn, lobsters etc) are just in my Yaml frontmatter as a key - Then there's standard.site which is an ATProto registration that gets an article into that ecosystem https://standard-search.octet-stream.net https://standard-search.octet-stream.net - And for longer articles I get a DOI from https://rogue-scholar.org https://rogue-scholar.org (the above URL is also https://doi.org/10.59350/tk0er-ycs46 https://doi.org/10.59350/tk0er-ycs46) which gets it a bit more metadata. On my TODO list is aggregating all the above into one static comment thread that I can render. Not sure it's worth the trouble beyond linking to each network as I'm currently doing, since there's rarely any cross-network conversations anyway.

rednafi 6mo ago
Damn. I got a bunch of idea around atproto from this comment. Also found out your blog. I wish digging out human written blogs wasn't such a chore. I like the idea of blogs but their discoverability sucks big time.
- pivic 6mo ago
  I like Kagi's small web initiative to help people find personal sites: https://blog.kagi.com/small-web-updates https://blog.kagi.com/small-web-updates

BeetleB 6mo ago

> If the write ups are any useful, it generally appears here or reddit and I often link back those discussions in the articles. That's good enough for me. If you have a Mastodon account, you can embed all responses to your Mastodon post into your site. See https://blog.nawaz.org/posts/2025/Jan/adding-fediverse-comments-to-my-static-site/ https://blog.nawaz.org/posts/2025/Jan/adding-fediverse-comme...

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wps 6mo ago

I just use HN as my comment platform. I have a Hugo short code that (very respectfully!) grabs the comments on a full rebuild, but only if those comments are not already cached and if the post is less than 7 days old. The formatting looks quite good on my site. Feel free to check it out at the bottom of this post: https://mketab.org/blog/sqlite_kdbx https://mketab.org/blog/sqlite_kdbx