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I reflected on genres of personal websites before, but within for example a blog there is yet another layer of genres for the different pieces of content that might be posted. Here a - necessarily incomplete - attempt to enumerate the different genres of posts.

Subjective/Personal: Opinions, Rants & venting, ramblings, anecdotes, pictures, showcasing your art...

Conversational: Replies, Interviews, Quotes with personal reflections, asking open questions

Educational material, either created to document your learning, as reference for yourself, or even intended primarily for other people's sake: tutorials, how-tos, deep-dives, "Today I learned...", demos, answering a question, showing a shapshot from your work, guides, walk-throughs ...

Other people have thought about this as well, see Types of blog posts by Apple Annie and the Indieweb wiki: Posts, and the Post Types Category, Mark Irons Diverse Content