Back in the day there was demand due to popularity.. in 2025, people are on various social media sites. I hardly read blogs myself, especially ever since X allowed paying customers to write long posts.
Even if you wanted to go back to blogging, you'd have to do it on substack, medium or some such platform with social built in.
My money is blogging being mostly for SEO. I don't know who's on the other end of the clicks, but they aren't reading for readings sake..
Finishing the last 10-20% to release a project and then getting enough eyeballs on it are infinitely harder than creating the app, and I'm finally experiencing it first hand
I still have https://founderfodder.com going as well. That's where I get my HN news now. I get to read the story, or at least its summary, and also read the comments summaries like an editorial. It's great!
My new project is https://bingeworthyshows.tv where i take all the curated YouTube channels and make them easy to watch so you don't have to rot your brain on Netflix shows you don't really want to watch but end up watching because you can't find anything better to watch
I'm somewhere between the two extremes.. it's not so bad that I want to put it down, and it is also not as good as what some claim. On average, it's better than hand coding everything though, and even for digging into code written by others
I built https://founderfodder.com as an alternate way to read HN stories, plus it has summaries of the stories and the comments if you want to save some time
> Neither? I'm surprised nobody has said it yet. I turned off AI autocomplete ...
This represents one group of developers and is certainly valid for that group. To each their own
For another group, where I belong, AI is a great companion! We can handle the noise and development speed is improved as well as the overall experience.
I prefer VSCode and GitHub copilot. My opinion is this combo will eventually eat all the rest, but that's besides the point.
Agent mode could be faster, sometimes it is rather slow thinking but not a big deal. This mode is all I use these days. Integration with the code base is a huge part of the great experience
Tariffs are effectively paid by the buyer, unless the seller reduces prices to counteract the tariff, which ain't gonna happen, so what is Trump trying to do, bankrupt us all? #angryface#
Not that it matters as much any more since SO is slowly dying, they should replace human moderates with AI and involve humans only when AI says it needs help with something