So it has come to this.
Archives for 2020/04
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2020-04-29 10:37 PM -04:00
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2020-04-28 12:52 PM -04:00 Reply to https://twitter.com/jevakallio/status/1254823758784856065?s=20
I maintain website/blog at https://desmondrivet.com It's a statically generated site using @getpelican, hosted on @NetlifyCMS. Updated semi-regularly and cross-posted to Twitter.
HI! Do you have a self-hosted personal website/blog? If yes drop a link in replies! đ
â Jani Eväkallio (@jevakallio) April 27, 2020
I'm also interested what are your main problems in hosting your own website? Effort? Cost? Tech? Getting engagement? -
2020-04-28 12:01 PM -04:00 Pieces of Thinking
Jan-Lukas Else recently asked the Hacker News community why most of them don't have blogs, and published his thoughts on their answers to his own blog. The conversation was interesting and got me thinking about my own motivations for maintaining this site.
The first thing that stands out for me in the responses is the number of people who said that they quit blogging because they didn't have any readers. It was more than I expected. I don't think I fully realized how important readership was to some people in the technical community, probably because I think can safely say that it's not of great importance to me.
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2020-04-27 7:35 PM -04:00 Bookmark of https://adactio.com/journal/16803
2020-04-25 7:10 AM -04:00Reading
At the beginning of the year, Remy wrote about extracting Goodreads metadata so he could create his end-of-year reading list. More recently, Mark Llobrera wrote about how he created a visualisation of his reading history. In his case, heâs using JSON to store the information. This kind of JSON storage is exactly what Tom Critchlow proposes in his post, Library JSON - A Proposal for a Decentralized Goodreads: Thinking through building some kind of âweb of booksâ I realized that we could use... -
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2020-04-26 1:32 PM -04:00A short post mortem, video and note links, and challenge from The Garden and the Stream IndieWebCamp Pop-up session
Thank you everyone! For those who attended yesterdayâs The Garden and the Stream IndieWebCamp session, thank you for participating! I honestly only expected 4 or 5 wiki fans to show up, so I was overwhelmed with the crowd that magically appeared from across multiple countries and timezones. Iâve heard from manyâboth during the session and privately afterâthat it was a fantastic and wide-ranging conversation. (I never suspected memory palaces or my favorite 13th century Franciscan tertiary to ... -
2020-04-26 3:44 PM -04:00 Did you know that the word "Westmount" comes from the Greek meaning "land of houses that Desmond will never own"? :P
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2020-04-26 1:35 AM -04:00 It ends. Finally.
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2020-04-23 1:06 AM -04:00 Reply to https://janboddez.tech/notes/ab8cca73e5
Well, this is quite embarrassing. Thank you for the information! Actually, my blog entries on my feed page did have p-names but I think I accidentally made them part of the e-content, and I suspect that's why they were not showing up. And, yes, my published date was embedded in my h-card for silly reasons that I won't get into. Anyway, I think (hope) I've fixed both issues if you want to try again.
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2020-04-22 1:34 PM -04:00 Bookmark of https://jlelse.blog/posts/why-no-blog/
2020-04-19 3:31 AM -04:00Why HN readers donât have a blog
Yesterday, I asked the Hacker News community why they donât have blogs, even though they have the necessary technical skills.Many Hacker News readers and contributors have the technical skills to run their own blog and post their opinions. But instead they prefer to use Twitter or other social networks. Why is this so? Is it the effort?I want to respond to some of the answers in this post:I donât want an extremely public record of my personal opinions or thoughts today, because I know theyâre... -
2020-04-21 4:42 PM -04:00 I love how comiccon isn't cancelled, it's just "postponed" until next year.