Major issue is that reaching their support is next to impossible. Payment for my domain is not going through and now I am waiting for my domain to get expired and be available in market again, so that I can buy it from other vendor.
I actually go via reverse route. Often times I would find something of interest on HN or Reddit which would make me feel excited.
Then to fulfil the curiosity I would often read lot of blogs, articles on same topic. If I still feel that I am still not satisfied then I pick book on the topic.
I usually read around 20 books in an year and all are shortlisted [1] as per the above method. Last 3 books that I have read
- Code Breakers (I found the mRNA vaccine and gene editing fascinating)
- How the world really works (To really understand that if the green future is really possible)
- Natural Language Processing in Action (To understand how text models like GPT-3 really works
I started my blog after procrastinating for 5 years. I was in the perfection loop of how I will host it using SSR and Github Actions and all those things that will lure any developer. One day I just hosted Ghost on Digital Ocean Droplet and started publishing things from my emails and notebook.
Writing is a way for me to clear out my head, I usually scribble a lot in my notepad and recently in Obsidian. From past one year, I also share the things out in public on my blog - https://binaryho.me/
The traffic is < 5 daily users but that's not discouraging as I find peace in writing.