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Kole McRae
Personal blog · kolemcrae.combusinessstartupsculture
Kole McRae's personal blog at kolemcrae.com covers business, startups and culture. Since 2016, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 99 times, most often “This Website Is Not a Blog”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for a personal site with notebook pages on tech support, a projects page, a digital marketing podcast and a move from Medium to GitHub Pages. The comments mostly point out broken links rather than praise the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- This Website Is Not a Blog2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-01-12
- Show HN: Beyond Keywords, The advanced digital marketing podcast2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-03-12
- I am no longer good at tech support and it's interesting to think about2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-09-19
What Hacker News says?
When Rand last posted about this it inspired me to look into other channels such as email and social. Basically clicks are disappearing for ALL channels, this isn't just a Google thing, it's a digital marketing thing as a whole. My thoughts here: https://kolemcrae.com/no-more-clicks-makes-me-sad/
Comment linking /no-more-clicks-makes-me-sad/
on “Fewer Than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click”Submitted Microsoft: You need to fix your Skype and Microsoft account issues, this is insane as a story · 544 points
HN discussionBeen transitioning mine from bloglike to more of a personal site: https://kolemcrae.com
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on “Building a Kickass Portfolio”Submitted I am no longer good at tech support and it's interesting to think about as a story · 7 points
HN discussionWhile this certainly gets into semantics, I don't think you need a "blog" but a website can help a lot. I wrote about why most smaller companies don't need a blog here: https://kolemcrae.com/notebook/humblesuggestion.html You may say: isn't that a blog post? I would disagree. You can read how my website isn't really a blot here: https://kolemcrae.com/notebook/notablog.html I'd say a website is fantastic for your bra…
Comment linking /notebook/notablog.html
on “Ask HN: Is having a personal blog/brand worth it for you?”Submitted RANT: We need to end security questions as a story · 6 points
HN discussionI actually implemented a rule for my website: anytime I write anything and cite a link, I always also include the internet archive url as well just in case. If it's not been archived yet I submit it to be. as an example: "You don't have to trust me on this one, here's an article with [a bunch of data] | [*Archive link in case of link rot]" from: https://kolemcrae.com/notebook/virtue.html It's not perfect, but it hel…
Comment linking /notebook/virtue.html
on “Link rot and content drift are endemic to the web”Submitted Marketing: The Importance of Why as a story · 5 points
HN discussionMy main use case is longevity. I use it as part of the extended brain idea. Along with my notes I want my citations to be around. Link rot is a serious issue and this solves for it. I bookmark in pinboard and every couple of months download the offline archive and back it up, meaning I never have to worry about important things I've bookmarked going away. I'm a little over the top though... https://kolemcrae.com/not…
Comment linking /notebook/longevity.html
on “Small Tech”Submitted 5000 upvotes, hundreds of comments, easy to verify, 100% wrong as a story · 5 points
HN discussionYup! I use Github pages as my "CMS" for my pure HTML static site ( https://kolemcrae.com ) works beautifully!
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on “The appeal of using plain HTML pages (2019)”Submitted Find out how Google, Facebook and Twitter profile you for advertising (updated) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionMy site too, it has made life SO much easier: https://kolemcrae.com/notebook/whynocms.html
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on “My stack is HTML+CSS”Submitted Find out what Facebook and Twitter think you're into based on what you post as a story · 4 points
HN discussionIf you want to use https with github and a custom domain you need to use either Cloudflare flexible SSL or with a domain host that allows ANAME or a flattened Cname... https://kolemcrae.com/Moving-To-GitPages/
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on “CS 189: Introduction to Machine Learning”Submitted I wrote instructions on how to creep 10,000 people out with Google as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI decided to re-frame this a bit. I have a website but don't have a blog. (here if curious: https://kolemcrae.com ) It may SEEM blog like though. There are articles with my opinions and lots of great info. They just aren't in a chronological order or dated. I go in depth here: https://kolemcrae.com/notebook/notablog.html Instead of "why I don't have a blog" maybe one should reframe it as "why do I have nothing to sh…
Comment linking /notebook/notablog.html
on “Why don't I have a blog?”Submitted This Website Is Not a Blog as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI think about this often and it's very scary to me. I wrote a whole article on how I try to achieve longevity. https://kolemcrae.com/notebook/longevity.html I also switched my whole site to pure html and css, but it depends on Bootstrap, which maybe is something I should remove and only add the classes I use.
Comment linking /notebook/longevity.html
on “This page is designed to last (2019)”Submitted Startups and smbs, a humble suggestion: stop blogging as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI wrote a somewhat related article a few years back that I think is very relevant to this: https://kolemcrae.com/the-internet-killed-the-rock-star-and-... The days a massive rock stars is over - it's not too bad though...
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on “How Musicians Make Money, Or Don’t, In 2018”Submitted Companies need to stop using memes as a story · 3 points
HN discussionBy the way - if you are thinking of A/B testing, my article has some serious considerations to make before you do: https://kolemcrae.com/testing-sucks-right/
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on “Reverse Engineering A/B Tests (2009)”Submitted Productivity: Organization, finishing my work, ADHD and how I figured it out as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI believe the link you meant to link to is https://kolemcrae.com/notebook/techsupport.html
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on “I am no longer good at tech support and it's interesting to think about”Submitted The two things most digital marketers forget or never even learn as a story · 3 points
HN discussionPerhaps a counterpoint to this post [1] yesterday? I sympathize, but I'm not sure I buy it. > There are no dates Perhaps not here, but the author's Current Projects page [2] certainly has one. Anyone who's worked at a large enough company will know that documentation goes out of date constantly, and I figure something similar applies for personal websites. If anything, blogging does a much better job of showing its…
Comment linking /current-projects/
on “This Website Is Not a Blog”Submitted This website is not a blog as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHere's the actual URL to the podcast: https://kolemcrae.com/podcast/
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on “Show HN: Beyond Keywords, The advanced digital marketing podcast”Submitted The Hard Truth – The Days of Earning Clicks Are Coming to an End (Data Included) as a story · 3 points
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