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Feedback: Would've been really nice to have an editor on your website. I'm on mobile, so I probably would have added a few feeds -> generated a link with query params -> put it on my slack to pick it up on my laptop later

I know I could just type it or send just the website link over, but it just feels like more work and I'm not invested enough (ie if I'd generated a link now I'd feel like I invested effort and would definitely open it on the laptop. With just a link...not sure)

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Haha, nice bio. Seeing that font on HN is quite a shock.

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"backups on an hourly basis" "excellent customer support" "500mb free"

A more unconvincing website I have never seen

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That's a pretty crazy background. I wish you'd put your profile in your bio so I could follow you!

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Do you have notifications set up or something? xD

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No, I just occasionally suffer a failure of self-control when I see my almost-namesake in a comment.

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I wish your contact details were in your profile, because I'm the kinda guy who'd annoy you till you finally give up and publish the blog ;)


Hi! I'd like some quick feedback - I just implemented RSS on my blog. ie the URL works.

Am I supposed to advertise it with the icon explicitly or is it enough if the URL works? What do you generally look for?


Wow. A few questions: - I recently added RSS to my blog. The URL works but I don't advertise it with the icon. Should I? - What do you use to track traffic?


I don't use the icon, but at the end of every article I have the "Follow me via RSS Feed" as a direct link to the RSS. As far as tracking the rss traffic, this graph is generated from my server logs. It is literally cat apache logs | grep my feed url | awk daily traffic | sort.

Note this shows me how many RSS readers have accessed my RSS daily. I can't actually track each person, although I have a report I'm working on for the end of the year.


Do you also have something like <link rel=alternate href=/atom.xml type=application/atom+xml> in your <head> element?

Things like this let me just throw homepages (or blog pages) at feed readers and they can discover all the different feeds available and I can pick one (although you really don't need more than one, generally).

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I do have a fairly new personal blog, but I'm not sure how discoverability works.

It seems like you'd get traffic from search engines a few years back, but now the only traffic I've had is from a HN post.

Everything points to optimizing for "AEO" for LLMs now


I'm a little skeptical of AEO. What's the point if AI users just ask the LLM to retrieve the information and never visit your blog? I almost never click the links ChatGPT gives me

Maybe it makes sense if you're selling a product or service, but I don't see the appeal of AEO as the new SEO. Maybe I'm missing something?

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That's crazy. That's generally scapegoat-ing territory...

I'd like to know more about the social network for the secret society though


For that one we started with something like PHPnuke which had message boards and many other features and customized it. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quill_and_Dagger


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