Comment by bayindirh

> My gripe was actually only about the post, not about the blog.

Hey, no worries. I replied to you in the context of the post, not the blog, actually. The blog has some other interesting features, too, but your comment was very clear that you wanted a TL;DR: on the post itself. :)

> You can down vote me to ground.

As a matter of principle, I don't downvote people. On the other hand, you can't downvote direct replies anyway, but that's irrelevant to my stance.

> But you need to realize that this is HN, the feedback garden.

We're both here for ~8 years, so I believe we're both pretty proficient about how this place works.

> And it did not happen to be that way. It is intentional.

Yes.

> Also, your blog didn't just "happen" to be public. You posted about it on HN and you are curious about the HN comments on your post... [snipped for brevity].

Yes and no. I post my new blog posts to two places. Here, and a Discord server which I frequent. I get almost no feedback from either. If people read and like what they read, it's great. If not, I don't care. Both blog and the digital garden is written like nobody's gonna read it. There's no rush, no anxiety, no optimization. I cook an idea, and refine it until I'm happy, and post it when I feel it's ready to be there. That blog is a public chronicle of my thoughts and what I go through.

> It is like looking into mirror and asking it not to show things you don't like. You need to come to accept the feedback, since you asked for it.

I'm pretty content with any comment incl. yours. I'm not someone who morphs to please people. Comments which challenge my words are invaluable as long as they don't become ad-hominem attacks. It both helps me to see my dark corners and improve my discussion and language skills (this is not my native language, tbh).