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Ask HN: Please suggest topic for blogging

by startupflix on 10/21/18, 5:28 AM with 7 comments

• by krapp on 10/21/18, 9:04 AM

  I hate to be that guy but if you can't come up with a topic of your own, or write about what interests you, you probably shouldn't blog.

• by Tomte on 10/21/18, 8:13 AM

  Career choices for younger merchant sons in Venice in the Quattrocento.

• by quickthrower2 on 10/21/18, 9:51 AM

  Your bio says "Lives in Kolkata, India."

  Anything about life in India as a developer, how the culture is different to western etc. Would be interesting.

  Blog about stuff you know well and can share deeper insights into.

• by arthev on 10/21/18, 8:53 AM

  Lisp macros, focusing not just on the resultant code but also the moment of realizing a macro'd be useful.

• by yesenadam on 10/21/18, 9:00 AM

  Things easier to do in a Perl one-liner than in an AWK one, and vice versa. (and maybe other languages)