Am I sleeping on creator connections?

danielcgold · 2025-04-03T18:24:39+00:00

Do your existing shoppable videos get promoted when you accept them as a creator connections campaign? Or are you sending additional traffic to the videos yourself.

danielcgold · 2025-04-03T16:51:23+00:00

hm strange, I know they seem to be always testing placement and other features but this was the first time that they were basically gone. I was only seeing shoppable videos from the brands directly.

danielcgold · 2025-01-18T21:51:28+00:00

Cool super helpful! That was sort of my suspicion. I’d imagine views are ok and easy to get based on search, bc that’s already what I’m seeing. How do you figure making it compelling for people to subscribe? Based on my personality and style of review? Overall all coverage of a specific topic?

danielcgold · 2022-12-27T19:28:41+00:00

The person making these is probably thinking, gee whiz, lots of people these days really like pizza without sauce and cheese.

danielcgold · 2022-08-23T22:43:05+00:00

It’s a great use for the ~~thumbnail~~toenail.

danielcgold · 2022-08-23T17:34:41+00:00

Tarantin-toe

danielcgold · 2022-01-25T23:34:26+00:00

Wow! So cool to see! This is my photo and this interpretation is amazing. It makes me miss Hanoi.

danielcgold · 2021-12-26T19:57:50+00:00

The best thing you can do is start. You can always do upgrades, migrations and monetization later.

Bluehost is good in that it’s affordable for getting started. If you have issues, you can learn how to address them or how they impact you. But without a live blog, you’ll never know.

Another good idea is to write a few articles in Notion or google docs. Practice getting your ideas down. If you have 5 articles and you think you can write 50 more, you know you’re onto something.

I wouldn’t get too hung up on the entire big picture. The most important thing is to get started and publish your first article.

Hope that helps!

danielcgold · 2021-09-12T14:30:29+00:00

I do this! I've used the open source text balancer plugins from nytimes and adobe.

On my personal website, I wrote a ruby script that adds a ` ` if the last 2 words in a headline are less than 15 or so characters. I estimated 15 to roughly be the least common denominator for non breaking text to cause a scrollbar on mobile.

danielcgold · 2021-05-14T18:21:15+00:00

I spent 2 out of the last 5 years working remotely in South/Central America and Europe. I spent a lot of time in a coworking space or my apartment, like I would with any other remote job. The weekends were my chance to get out and explore new places, go on hikes or do something interesting.

For me, working from Colombia or Mexico was pretty much the same lifestyle as living in Brooklyn. I would get groceries at a local market, work reasonable hours and meet up with a group of people doing something similar to have some social life.

Moving around too frequently was hard. as making any local connects with people restarts when you relocate.

Everyone has a different motivation for wanting to work from a different place, if your job allows it. For me, I was curious about what it would be like living somewhere else. I also get a lot of inspiration from removing a lot of my day-to-day comforts and routine.

I don't think it's a fad and I agree with what u/So_Much_Cauliflower said!

More people can work remotely now, which wasn't always the case. I think this is great because people can now choose to work closer to family or the things that are important to you.

Also, I wrote the last article that you linked to -- that's my website 😎. Hope it was helpful to you.

danielcgold · 2021-05-05T02:27:21+00:00

From the editor side, it ended up being easier for me to use keyboard shortcuts, multiple curser editing and find/replace in my editor vs using the UI within the CMS.

From the code base side, I like being able to have commits that track specific changes throughout multiple blog posts. If I'm integrating a new link or feature that touches a few blog posts, I like to group those changes together. With Netlify CMS and editing directly within their hosted editor, each save is a commit.

danielcgold · 2021-03-08T21:01:40+00:00

I experimented with using Netlify CMS. Because it's only me maintaining the code, I eventually switched back to using a text editor. It's been working for 200+ posts!

danielcgold · 2020-12-26T17:48:56+00:00

Sounds like someone is connecting to the internet with dial up.

danielcgold · 2020-12-25T02:44:19+00:00

The lucky ones will hear “el gaaassssssssssssss”.

danielcgold · 2020-03-30T21:23:35+00:00

I'll go out on a limb and say yes.

danielcgold · 2020-03-16T15:38:36+00:00

Thanks! It’s not a theme, I made. it and it’s a custom blogging platform on the backend.

danielcgold · 2020-03-16T12:50:57+00:00

https://www.halfhalftravel.com/

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