I probably won’t read your gamer posts, but I do like to read the tech posts, found my way here via a search for GPG. It’s a tough, slow slog to get even people who should encrypt everything to even think about it.

Hey, K. Mandla has started a new blog: http://inconsolation.wordpress.com/

“… enough readers for the few adds I display here to pay for …”

Oh good reminder; I turned adblock off for your site now. (I’m sure I’m not the only person who defaults to leaving it on unless we get a reminder AND it’s someplace independent we actually care about.)

“I mean, how do you explain what Terminally Incoherent is about to someone who never visited it in a few words?”

I’ve told people “it’s a blog by a guy whose interests have a lot of overlap with mine.” ‘Nuff said usually (since this generally ends the discussion as far as anyone else is concerned; they care about different things :P).

FWIW, your blog is actually helping inspire me to (maybe, probably?) get back into things myself. One of my major hangups in the past was feeling I needed to stick to a single subject; my Discordian blaaargh died off long ago, as for the most part the joke had run its course in my life (not completely, but enough to make a blog difficult), and I don’t have much else to focus on. But your site — which covers a wide variety of topics — works pretty well. For me, at least; even if only half or so of your posts are things I find really interesting, those half are pretty much always the most interesting internet read of mine for the week.

So basically, thanks and keep it up!

Okay, you pulled me out of passive readerdom and forced me to comment ;)
You have a very British tendency to publicly devaluate your own work. The truth is that you weave interesting and humorous narratives out of what is happening in your life, something that readers recognize and want to invest in. Here’s another guy who’ll keep reading!

@ Scott Hansen:

Nice. Thanks for the suggestions. :)

@ Janek Warchoł:

Thank you sir! I like how we have the ł on the direct opposite ends of our names.

@ Craig A. Betts:

Meh, I kinda gave up on Facebook. I used to cross-post everything there and my IRL friends would just complain I flood their feeds with crap. So now Facebook only gets pictures from family functions and parties and happy birthday posts. I tweet my random thoughts in short form, I Tumblr funny pics, interesting tech-links get Google Plus’ed and the thoughtful stuff goes here. I also lately got a Quote.fm account for saving and sharing choice quotes from blogs and articles. So I’m kinda all over the interwebs as well.

@ Dirk Krause:

Yeah, I realize that. For me at least, comments seem to be the most direct form of feedback. I can stare at Google Analytics page all day, but nothing makes me feel like I posted something interesting if I get a dozen comments on it. :)

@ Chris Wellons:

Number two! Wooohoo! :)

But yeah – in a way, I feel that the slower growth might be good for the ecosystem as a whole. It weeds out those whose heart wasn’t really in it, and leaves more room for quality content.

@ fundamental:

Heh, I had the opposite problem: I imposed a schedule and found it hard to deviate from it. It was like an OCD. I just had to have posts queued up or else… :P

I’ve allowed myself to be bad about it lately. Sometimes I just don’t have anything to post and I will let it slide. It still annoys me not to have a post queued up, but I find it healthier and less stressful to not beat myself over it these days. :P

@ IceBrain:

I removed high volume stuff like TDWTF from my feed. I will usually go there directly every other week and archive binge if I’m in the mood. Otherwise it just clogs up my feed.

@ Shrutarshi Basu:

You’ll be pleased to know your blog was already in my RSS feed when I tried to subscribe to it right now. :)

@ JuEeHa:

Yep, retro programming has no posts since September 2012. I think it is fairly certain it is dead. 90% of the blogs in my feed are like this unfortunately.

@ agn0sis:

LOL, well if you insist, here are some actual sexy cossplay galleries just for you.

Damn it Luke! I thought that link was going to take me to some neat sexy cosplay galleries. Anyway, I love your blog and I read almost all the articles, although I usually read only the first two or three paragraphs when you are reviewing a book, movie or videogame I haven’t put my hands on. Keep writing, here’s a guy that will keep reading. Thank you for the brain food.

I currently follow:
this (of course)
http://tenfourfox.blogspot.com
http://www.retroprogramming.com (seems to be dead, sadly)
http://prog21.dadgum.com/

I second the recommendation for Matt Might’s blog. You should also definitely check out Dave Winer’s Scripting News, he’s one of the inventors of RSS. I also highly recommend Michael Fogus’ Send More Paramedics. I’ve also been getting back to blogging myself.

Blogs are actually a small part of my feedlist. I use it for podcasts (This American Life, Econtalk, 99% Invisible, etc), photo feeds (mostly Tumblr), aggregation sites like The Daily WTF and Not Always Right, automated notifications, etc.

That said, and besides your great blog (of which I read at least 75% of posts), there are a few ones I follow:

The Old New Thing is great, even though I’m a fully Linux man nowadays. The content is technical but often funny and interesting.

As a fan of Git Annex, I follow Joey Hess’ development blog, which has one post every day.

On a less technical note, I like BLDGBLOG, about architecture and urban environments. I’m not sure how I got to it, but I’m glad I did.

I started reading Warren Ellis’ blog after I read FELL (though it wasn’t the first of his works I read), and it has a nice mix of good comic panels, interesting social comments and mind-numbing music (sorry, warren).

XKCD: What If? is a blog, isn’t it? Regardless, it’s very funny. Usually.

(I had links to all of these, but WordPress didn’t like them. Bad wordpress, I’m no spammer!)

I tried imposing a schedule for my own site, but it turns out that I’m quite bad at keeping said schedule. As the entry mentions, maintaining a blog takes time, effort, and persistence, though I’m constantly running short on the first requirement.

The best recommendation I can have for you is http://matt.might.net/articles/ .