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I’ve been using DuckDuckGo for years now. It’s great. I probably use the !g fallback to Google a few times a year.

I have a Dell XPS 15 running Pop!_OS, and it’s great[1]. No issues. It’s a much better experience compared to setting up Kubuntu[2]. [1] http://bryangrohman.com/pop-os-dell-xps-15/…

I switched to FastMail about 6 months ago, and I like it. I actually like FastMail’s webapp more than Gmail’s. There aren’t any features from Gmail that I miss, and FastMail offers…

Writing your own can be a good way to learn a new language as well as a good introduction to html/css if you’re new to it. Also, if you write it yourself (again, for _simple_ use c…

Yes, indeed. My original thought was more along the lines of why there are so many generators published to solve the same problem when it’s easy to create your own custom generator…

Yeah, you’re right - I forgot about Dreamweaver and similar tools. I do think that adding wysiwyg UIs to a generator puts it in a slightly different class than the type of generato…

Yep, thanks, I realized that eventually :)

Thanks for the thoughtful reply.

It makes sense that the static site generators with lots of bells an whistles are harder to get right, especially if they’re trying to build an ecosystem with plugins and themes wh…

Gotcha, makes sense. My question seems a little short-sighted in retrospect :)

Hi, thanks, that all makes sense. I was asking why there are so many static site generators and why you wouldn’t just create a custom static site generator yourself, not why you wo…

Gotcha, that makes sense. I hadn’t considered programmers who don’t know html/css and don’t care to learn it.

Cool, thanks for the reply. Good to know you have plenty of options.

It looks nice, but I guess I still[1] don’t understand the proliferation of simple static site generators. It’s pretty easy (and fun!) to build your own that works exactly as you w…

I'm using vim with text files already, and Pandoc for converting markdown into other formats as needed. Hard to imagine paying $30 for a worse editing experience that only works on…

Hmm, that’s odd. In my experience, FastMail’s web app is much faster than Gmail. I also tend to like that the FastMail web app is simple in comparison to Gmail - fewer things to sl…

I switched to FastMail from Gmail a few months ago and haven’t had any issues with spam.

"It's worth noting that in my testing, GNOME uses slightly more RAM and CPU than Unity on the same hardware doing the same things. The increase is only about 10 percent more on the…

Take a look at the Glowstone configuration docs here: https://github.com/GlowstoneMC/Glowstone/wiki/Configuration-... It says for the "allow-flight" option that the default is "fal…

I just tried setting up a Glowstone server on a Linode instance. It was a very quick experience. However, I ended up switching to the official Minecraft server jar provided by Moja…

I switched from LastPass to KeePassXC, and I like that I don't have a browser extension anymore. It seems like many of the security vulnerabilities discovered in LastPass were in t…

I use PocketCasts on iOS and web. If you both switch to a platform-agnostic option like that, then sharing should be easier.