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Comment on Ask HN: Are technical blogs dead?

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HN is an IT site, but technology means a more than IT. Technical can be formal or informal. Social media encapsulated informal personal interest technical blogs long before llms. Reach is always the biggest problem. Mention on HN has helped a few personal blogs, I'm sure. If somebody wants to look something up that a particular blog is good about, they can take the data and run, or be entertained by following the llm back to the source. If I want to know the amp-hours in a NiCd C-cell, I go to DDG, then the blog, and then 85% of the time I leave. The ai assisted answer credits the page" Maintaining your Batteries" which looks like it was typed on an Underwood. Walled gardens ruined search.

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