Build a link blog like Simon Willison

This... might be what I need to do honestly. I've thought about a good way to save some links I find on HN, and its painful to go back through pages. Heck, sometimes I lose my own comments. A blog might just be the way to regain access to lost content from HN.

Wow, thank you for this comment and for continuously sharing!

Meta would be blogging about this post.

Depends on how much commentary you are adding. If more than a sentence it's worth having a separate page so that other people can link to what you said!

My link blog entries are often quite long: https://simonwillison.net/search/?type=blogmark

I've settled on posting interesting links to BlueSky and then I put a Bsky sidebar on my site[0]. It's a win-win; I have the small links+comments "on" my site, but the longer stuff that gets posted to RSS/newsletter to my site proper.

[0] https://mattsayar.com

Some quick ideas:

- Multiple links in the same post make it difficult to organize discussions and thoughts.

- Monthly posts require extra effort to maintain and update, which didn't align with our initial goal of sharing more casually and recording our thoughts in real time.

- Modern static site generators support maintaining archive pages by month, so we no longer need to do it manually.

Hoping those ideas make sense to you.

Like the other reply said, a monthly link blog would be too much. I find myself ignoring a lot of those links of the month posts because it covers too many topics and I end up not liking most of it. Whereas one which has small commentary on a single link is great for me, since if i like the commentary enough, I would add the link to my read later.

I used to have the problem where all of my posts would be 2000-3000 words, or more likely I would never finish them. So I started a newsletter in November. I committed to publishing every Monday and Thursday. Furthermore, since I have a wife and a toddler, I basically have about 4-5 hours to work on every post. The regular schedule has helped me get over my perfectionism, aggressively cut scope, and ship on time.

I had a similar problem with sonnet.io (some articles taking weeks to get done).

So, I started untested (https://untested.sonnet.io) where for 111 days no matter what I'd share a post per day. Here's the first post: https://untested.sonnet.io/notes/111

Consistency really helps - there are posts that I had spent weeks on and barely anyone read them in the first place. Then, once I started posting smaller, messier notes almost daily, both the traffic (not that important to me) and the amount of interesting interactions with people (very important to me) went up by 100x.

Another way in which I avoided yak shaving/scope creep was to ditch my own site and rely on Obsidian Publish (I went back to my own solution after a year, as a reward for mostly sticking to the plan)

For these things, I use the Pomodoro method. I wanna do the thing, it's not critical, let's grind it for 30 minutes, set a timer, then (the hard part) stop

And this link of yours counts as something "truly novel"?

> https://youtu.be/Of9yvKINITg # 10 hours of silence occasionally broken up by the Taco bell Bong

I'm joking, this is really funny, and many of your links are very interesting and informative. Thanks for sharing.

This is like assembly code for link blog