Paddy Donnelly is a designer who writes short posts on web design, including page layout, scrolling, and client feedback.
HN commenters praise his site for few, quality posts and cite his page fold article, while one criticizes his spelling and grammar.
This is making the arguments based on only things "above the fold". There are plenty of people that have dispelled the myth that content NEEDS to be above the fold (1)(2).
That said, the implication with Google results is that the higher up on the page the link is, the more relevant that link is to a user's search. In my experience, very few people ever get to the second page of Google Search results. I'm all but certain that if we looked at heatmaps of clicks across all Google search pages, we would see this quite clearly. It's the entire reason that SEO has been an industry at all.
It gets more troubling with products like Google Cars (3)(4). It is literally another layer of PPC results specific to cars. I've got to think that other car retailers (including manufacturers) can't be too happy about this.
(1) http://iampaddy.com/lifebelow600/
(2) http://blog.kissmetrics.com/why-the-fold-is-a-myth/
(3) http://www.drivingsales.com/blogs/InvestigativeReporting/2013/04/08/google-cars-it-means-dealers-consumers-industry
(4) http://searchengineland.com/google-tests-new-car-leads-product-126070
Ever seen http://iampaddy.com? I like this site because: there are very few posts; all of them are quality; the design is engaging; it is very easy to follow the author on twitter; reading each article takes little time.
Looking at your blog then you have experiences, observations and advice to offer which could be valuable. Why not write one topic bi-weekly or monthly which focuses on a single theme, re-using your existing comments appropriately. Personally I found your posts light-hearted, interesting and engaging (with some refinement) but too random. As it stands, its not a blog but a collection of comments. I would get rid of all of it and start again. In answer to your questions:
1 - keep comments on. Why not?
2 - I prefer to see a list of articles rather than everything thrown at me in one page
3 - I think posterous will let you do what you want, having read other posterous blogs. Not sure how exactly
4 - I'm not sure all of the name works, although I like shlepp as a word.
5 - I'm not a seasoned blogger but like reading the occasional blog.
The large amount of grammar and spelling errors make me question if the author is at all interested in a "real serious business". And WTF is up with the horrendous comma usage? It's similar on his Nautilus6 and LinkedIn websites, too.
Also, how precisely did temporary downtimes prevent deploys? At best, it appears they would've been delayed by a couple hours, and the great part about Git is that you can work around something like that pretty easily. Granted, downtime is annoying, but his extended difficulties seem to largely stem from his own mistakes, and for $7/month he's not exactly paying top dollar to guarantee uptime.
Learn too spell: http://iampaddy.com/spell/
I don't think the whole "above the fold" mentality is as relevant now as it was a few years ago. Monitors are bigger, and people are used to scrolling up and down a page.
Sure, there should be something above the fold to entice the user to scroll, but to keep your content above the fold is just asking for a cluttered design.
You're scrolling now, aren't you? :-)
See http://iampaddy.com/lifebelow600/
Above the fold has been wrong and deprecated for about 5 years now:
http://iampaddy.com/lifebelow600/
http://uxmyths.com/post/654047943/myth-people-dont-scroll
http://www.marketingexperiments.com/blog/analytics-testing/web-usability-long-landing-page.html
There are tradeoffs involved in having some important material below the fold, but I don't think it's universally a bad idea.
http://iampaddy.com/lifebelow600/