Recently I read a article in Hacker News titled Why Blog If Nobody Reads It? | Andy’s Blog which discussed reasons why we still blogging even though nobody reads. The comment section of HN is really interesting btw1.
It reminds me that a few years ago, I wanted to start my own blog, but it was more like a dairy instead of a blog, and I gave up in the end. I also tried writing newsletters in a platform called Revue as a form of blogging, but in 2023, this platform was shutdown2. Medium and Notion are also good platforms of blogging, but they both have a fatal problem: I don’t own my posts in my own computer, which means, once these platforms are down or limited3, I am no able to retrieve my data. In the end, Obsidian became the tool where I write my blog and I host it in GitHub Pages45, thus, data are stored locally and securely.
Back to the article, probably nobody reads my blog, but I insist writing it, the reason behind is I wanted to keep my mind clear, just as the blog says:
Blogging forces clarity. It makes you structure your thoughts, sharpen your perspective. You stop writing fluff because — let’s be honest — you’re writing for yourself. And if you can’t keep yourself interested, nobody else stands a chance.
A video also inspired me to do so6. In short, what I do is to keep lowering the entropy of the tiny system, fighting with the exponential growing entropy of the entire system.
Update: 11 FEB 2025
I shuffled a song from one of my favorite musician, “I can still create something great and it still not to late”7, I am creating something great and making different now.
Footnotes
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Restrictions for customers based in Russia – Notion Help Center ↩
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I also deployed it into Cloudflare Pages: rtliang.pages.dev ↩