"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

One thing you can't get with a self-hosted blog is reach in Medium's recommendation engine.

If you read the title carefully, it says "for 10+ years" ...

Please don't respond to bad comments by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That only makes things worse.

Crossing into personal attack is especially bad, so please don't do that, even when provoked.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Yeah, I should learn to do better. Sorry, dang!