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Want to know the secret to blogging more often? Lower your standards! A post which you don't think is ready yet is a LOT better than a giant folder full of drafts that no-one ever gets to see (Your readers won't ever know how good the thing you wanted to write would have been)

Simon Willison (@simonw)Wed, 12 Jan 2022 16:23 GMT

https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1578049269193285633

And as always: one big secret to writing more is to lower your standards Published but "could have been better" is massively more valuable than something that eternally sits in your drafts

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Want to know the secret to blogging more often? Lower your standards! A post which you don't think is ready yet is a LOT better than a giant folder full of drafts that no-one ever gets to see (Your readers won't ever know how good the thing you wanted to write would have been)

Simon Willison (@simonw)Wed, 12 Jan 2022 16:23 GMT

Simon Willison (@simonw)Thu, 06 Oct 2022 15:49 +0000

Posted on 2022-09-12

Laying out the goals & principles for my site

… blogging is great isn’t it? You don’t have to write every week or every day. Just write when you have something you want to write about, and up it pops in RSS feed readers, or posted to Twitter, or whatever. Lovely. — Phil Gyford

Trying out a little something, inspired by @genmon

Tom Critchlow (@tomcritchlow)Tue, 10 May 2022 15:46 +0000

Tom Critchlow. Move. Think. Create.

The answer to this appears to be a resounding "no". So I've abandoned Substack. Interoperability with the open web is essential.

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@SubstackInc heya - how do I import my *new* blog posts into Substack? I don't want to have to copy and paste them in manually every day. My WordPress blog has an RSS feed and an API. Can I hook that up to your service? Thanks!

Terence Eden (@edent)Mon, 12 Apr 2021 16:13 +0000

Terence Eden (@edent)Tue, 12 Apr 2022 06:20 +0000

How do we bring back blog posts. I want more of them.

Stephanie Stimac 🔮 Web Witch (@seaotta)Wed, 02 Mar 2022 17:33 GMT

https://twitter.com/sereedmedia/status/1499089133263679488

Where people write articles on their own website.

Stephanie Stimac 🔮 Web Witch (@seaotta)Wed, 02 Mar 2022 18:32 GMT

a nice thing about writing with less jargon is that if what I'm saying doesn't make sense, it's easy for readers to call me on it if you use a lot of impenetrable jargon, people will often think the problem is with *them* instead of with your writing

🔎Julia Evans🔍 (@b0rk)Fri, 18 Feb 2022 14:50 GMT

https://twitter.com/smsm1/status/1481310623979954176

I've started hitting publish, then reading it with everyone else who sees my tweet about it and fixing the typos when I spot them

Simon Willison (@simonw)Wed, 12 Jan 2022 18:19 GMT

https://twitter.com/carolstran/status/1475843187092738054

✨ 2021 stats ✨ 🗞 Total articles published: 21 💭 Articles still in progress: 7 🗑 Pitches rejected: 6 ✏️ Blog posts: 1 Not bad for working a full-time day job on top imo 🙃

Carolyn Stransky (@carolstran)Tue, 28 Dec 2021 14:56 GMT

40 weekly posts in a row! 😱🎉🥳 Many thanks to all people I have worked with doing hundreds of reviews and workshops and also readers asking questions. I couldn’t write all that without you.

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Choosing interoperable and user-friendly ids and codes is a must do when designing an API apihandyman.io/how-to-choose-… #apidesign

API Handyman 💉💉 (@apihandyman)Wed, 29 Dec 2021 10:26 GMT

API Handyman 💉💉 (@apihandyman)Wed, 29 Dec 2021 20:23 GMT

When it comes to blogging I always go back to this post from @photomatt. > So blog just for two people. ma.tt/2014/01/intrin…

George Tsiolis ⚡ (@gtsiolis)Mon, 27 Dec 2021 20:26 GMT

https://twitter.com/__jcmc__/status/1475093766000287750

Soon we’ll have a story bounty where we’ll post topics we want articles on and then folks can write them! If you’d ever like to workshop ideas I’m happy to help there. Maybe swing by our slack or DM?

Wandering Woodsman 🔥🚴‍♂️🌳 (@philsturgeon)Sun, 26 Dec 2021 14:51 GMT

My blog has more words of content than the first three Harry Potter books combined. Or more than the 5th book (the longest Harry Potter book). So that's neat.

Kent C. Dodds (@kentcdodds)Fri, 15 Oct 2021 12:54 +0000

One of the smartest decisions we made at @Cloudflare was recognizing that the primary purpose of our blog was attracting employees, not attracting customers.

Matthew Prince 🌥 (@eastdakota)Sat, 02 Oct 2021 16:24 +0000

👋🏼 Woke up at 5am, decided not to just doom-scroll so got up and wrote and scheduled 2 blog posts. I haven't had the real urge to write like this in a while, it was fun 🥰 Now it's 6:30 which means it's time for exercise ✨

Pauline P. Narvas ⚡️ (@paulienuh)Tue, 28 Sep 2021 05:34 +0000

https://twitter.com/Julian/status/1348001396277186560

Bloggers who post frequently (2x/wk) are rarely worth reading consistently. I read for insights. And no writer can generate profound insights on a fixed schedule. I aggregate writers who publish sporadically. When they post, they truly have something to say.

Julian Shapiro (@Julian)Sat, 09 Jan 2021 20:19 GMT

Did some reading into MQTT after setting up some #Tasmota plugs that used it and realised I wanted to know more about the structure of topics, messages etc. Blogged my notes #blogumentation style (@JamieTanna would be proud) ;) brunty.me/post/understan…

Matt Brunt (@Brunty)Sat, 28 Aug 2021 21:03 +0000

I guess that one of the advantages of having a reasonable archive in your blog is seeing how your writing has improved. I now cringe a bit at how I expressed myself in 2018 but I see growth in my most recent stuff. That’s a nice feeling 😊

Ana Rodrigues (@ohhelloana)Thu, 19 Aug 2021 18:29 +0000

https://twitter.com/jesslynnrose/status/1412422589981601800

write a website. So it's reviewable after the fact, at anyone's own chosen pace, can be subscribed to, works everywhere, doesn't need a special app, and one can forward links to it to other people to pass on suggestions.

Stuart Langridge (@sil)Tue, 06 Jul 2021 16:08 +0000

Today I’m going to WRITE something. I’ve spent the last month+ rebuilding my life and fell behind on articles. But the stories I’m working on feature brilliant, inspiring humans and I’m excited to finish and share with y’all ✨ Tweeting this for some level of accountability 😅

Carolyn Stransky (@carolstran)Sat, 10 Apr 2021 09:36 +0000

I was just bought my first ever coffee for a blog post I wrote 😭 thank you so much!

Ramón Huidobro (@hola_soy_milk)Wed, 07 Apr 2021 08:21 +0000