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He did in the form of Posthaven [1] but I'd say please keep it updated. The last post on the Posthaven blog is five years old.[2] [1] https://posthaven.com/ [2] https://blog.postha…

"Because ISRO actually launches satellites built by students for free into low-Earth orbit, we must ask what these satellites do. It’s been a decade of India launching student-buil…

> Ask the people in the developing world using it to replace their countries' failed monetary systems. Where oh where is this happening? The El Salvador experiment failed: https://…

It might be about profitability, long-term energy storage and much less maintenance (since no moving parts). Ref: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03062... "E…

The author has published a new post: "Just more confusion" https://rootprivileges.net/2022/04/07/hi-wordpress-com-youve...

Alternate access: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30899560

Thanks for sharing these links.

Managing it after is I believe the bigger problem.

I can agree with you and still be baffled by that response. Knowing the tech underlying a blog and saying using an SSG on a Raspberry Pi is simple are different things.

Seconded. Already breathing easier as well. Also, a good example of the sort of attitude we've come to expect from WP folks, and from which the sudden Pro-plan changes departed.

Out of curiosity, what would you use to build nixCraft if you had to start over?

Free is never free but why does free have to go from quite non-shitty to shitty overnight for no discernible reason? The point is here that "just here to blog" bloggers like me hav…

I can't find any other media files on that site and the one in use weighs 900 kB. Doesn't seem like a big deal.

You're profoundly overestimating how 'simple' this is, or even understandable, or how much even most bloggers are interested and/or have bandwidth to understand, what these things …

There's no monthly payment option. So it's never $15 a month, it's $180 a year. Also, what if I don't want many of those features? And I don't. This is why the previous plans, whic…

It was, right? I hope anyone who's considering designing an alternative keeps this in mind. It was one of the best things about WordPress.com. This is also why I'm currently consid…

I agree. Every time something like this happens, I just miss Posterous. I think they had it all right, including the simplicity. Then Twitter bought and shut them down. Edit: There…

The block editor has been called out for technical problems often but I feel the writing experience it offers should be discussed as well. For example cursor behaviour in the block…