Blogging

I just wanted to express gratitude to those that helped give that little push to just blog what I feel and go with it. I have gotten to the point where I have published my 20th post today.

Although I do feel my blog site needs work, It has at least made me more confident to try and push my work into social networks by uploading posts of it on Mastodon and using my old Facebook as well. It is giving me more confidence to try "market" it I guess.

Still trying to figure out my schedule and most likely going to look at my least viewed posts and bring them up to the standard of the ones that got more views but overall I do feel better about myself while doing this expression of self

So with that I give a Thank You to the community 🫡

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/11439487

Long overdue post on the potential for using Godot for GUI app development and why I think it's pretty cool!

I hope a little self promotion is ok. Thanks to all of your help a few weeks ago, I was able to get an RSS feed set up for my blog. For reasons I still don't fully understand, a year and a half ago, when I moved my personal website from github and Azure App Services to Google Sites; I decided to just hack Google Sites into a blog rather than do the logical thing and start a blog on Wordpress or Blogger.

As I was documenting the process of hosting a feed using Google Drive and automating it with Google Apps Script, I decided to turn it into a full blog post on the journey I took to get things working.

If you do have some morbid curiosity on the actual steps to take to host, automate, and update RSS using Google Apps, I do have a full guide with instructions but can't say I recommend doing things this way to anyone but the truly delusional.

The whole post is about a 20 minute read. Despite having started my blog 18 months ago, this is only my 11th post, I'm still kind of new. I'd appreciate feedback for anyone that would be willing to offer it.

Hi, I just started trying to blog (video games opinion and I suppose it could fall under reviewing as well) and I feel a bit overwhelmed thinking whether it feels "correct" or if it is missing something.

Currently it is just writing with pictures with it linked where I took it from on the title text option on the images and the publishing that.

Is there any sites or resources one can recommend for reading?

I am more than willing to read any advice anyone would like to share as this is still very new for me.

I am using Blogger, so if there is any tips anyone would like to share in regards to the platform, I am also willing to read those as well.

I've never dealt with RSS before on a personal level. I've pretty much always used social media to discover blog posts. I'm wanting to set up RSS for my personal blog but since I have no experience, looking for some guidance for best practices. I'm currently setting up a script to automatically update the xml when I publish new posts.

Am I supposed to include the entire post in the description field? Or just a summary? How do I handle the markup and formatting of the post?

Am I supposed to delete items from the feed or do I just keep appending items to the bottom of it?

Its it good practice to include a thumbnail image or anything with the item in the feed? How is that possible.

How do I distribute the feed beyond adding a button on my site?

Thank you in advance to anyone for their advice.

but we were forcefed STEM at every turn by school, media, and most importantly, our parents. It's where the money is, and not money for money's sake, but money for job and financial security. Clearly, the siren song was hard to resist, not just for me, but for droves of people my age.

Great post that I feel like is more relevant than ever. I don't regret my decision in pursuing CS because I'm quite passionate for it, but I know a few peers that regret it (one of which switched to another college 3 years into his Bachelor's).

There's definitely a lot of misleading that happens when people talk about tech jobs. One of the first lectures in my college was the professor praising people for choosing CS, assuring them it's the right choice, then showing us a graph of average salaries in the industry. "You see, web developers earn $110K per year! Software engineers a little more so!". It also came with more talk about how companies are always on the lookout for talent and finding a job should be super easy compared to other fields.

Maybe that was the case ~10 years ago, but it certainly doesn't seem to be now. I hope that more instructors would be more honest that CS is not for everyone, it's a long and difficult journey that not everyone would want to put up with. It's also not as lucrative and stable as some people romanticize it to be. Just my $0.02.

I made a blog post on my biggest issue in Lemmy and the proposed solutions for it. Any thoughts on this would be appreciated.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/8881703

Intro to a blog series this person is starting up for constructing features for their game in bevy

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/10738584

Pretty good write-up on the advantages of self-hosting versus the woes of platform-as-a-service.

I don't agree with everything here but I generally agree that it feels like there's a significant lack of exploration and creativity. Every company is too afraid to create something new, and everything seems to be following safe trends.