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756 points mtlynch | 4 comments | | HN request time: 0.815s | source
1. znpy ◴[] No.23928368[source]
the best thing in this article is the immediate link named "I don’t want your life story; just tell me how to build it "
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2. mtlynch ◴[] No.23928595[source]
Haha, that was inspired by my experience of searching cooking recipes online.
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3. erikig ◴[] No.23929367[source]
Which begs the question - which cooking recipes start off with a biography of the author? Now I want to see those!
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4. mtlynch ◴[] No.23953245{3}[source]
Oh, they all kind of do that. "Life story" is an exaggeration, but most recipe authors provide a lot of fluff backstory to a recipe before sharing the instructions because Google seems to favor longer content in search results. Here's a not so egregious example on a blog I follow, but it's ~8 paragraphs of fluff before they explain the recipe:

https://www.ketoconnect.net/protein-waffle-recipe/