Tag: matt-gemmell

  • Stop caring about follower counts

    Matt Gemmell on what has changed for him in 2014 — mainly, that he no longer worries about things like stats, follower counts, and numbers. He now writes for him. But he used to. I’d second-guess tweets and even articles, based on what I thought would appeal to my readers – who were mostly programmers.…

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  • More benefits of turning off comments

    Over four years ago whether a blog should or shouldn’t have comments was a heavily debated topic in the blogging community. Back then I wrote about one possible benefit of disabling comments. One of the benefits I see coming from disabling comments is the number of links you end up getting back to your site.…

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