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Re: Show HN: Switch from Medium to your own blog

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Great gif. This should be how everyone does readmes.

I've tried doing this screen-capture-to-gif thing before but it was always frustrating. I'd love to hear about the workflow to make a gif like this.

ShareX makes it very easy.

https://getsharex.com/

Re: Show HN: Switch from Medium to your own blog

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Great gif. This should be how everyone does readmes.

I've tried doing this screen-capture-to-gif thing before but it was always frustrating. I'd love to hear about the workflow to make a gif like this.

I've used the default MacOS screen recording (cmd + shift + 5) and then edited/speed up some parts with iMovie.

Then I transform the video into a gif using https://github.com/mathieudutour/dotfiles/blob/master/bin/mo...

Hope that helps!

Re: Show HN: Switch from Medium to your own blog

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I honestly don't get posts like these. IMHO the main selling point of Medium is not that you can easily set up a blog, there's plenty of platforms that let you do that easily, or great tools like OP's for setting up your own. The point is that there is already a large audience you can reach with your posts, and Medium actively works to distribute your posts to people who would be interested in them.

The equivalent here would be a "switch from YouTube to your own video hosting site in a few minutes." I mean sure, you could, and it probably wouldn't be that hard, but that's not the point.

Re: Show HN: Switch from Medium to your own blog

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've tried doing this screen-capture-to-gif thing before but it was always frustrating. I'd love to hear about the workflow to make a gif like this.

ShareX makes it very easy. https://getsharex.com/

Wow I never heard of this and it looks awesome! Thanks for the share!

Re: Show HN: Switch from Medium to your own blog

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Honestly I really appreciate tools like this exist but I'll probably keep using Medium out of laziness. I don't want to have to worry about maintaining my own blog and I'm cheap so I don't really want to pay for hosted Ghost/Wordpress since I'm not trying to make money off of my infrequent dumb blog posts. The cheapest Ghost plan is $29/mo :(

Re: Show HN: Switch from Medium to your own blog

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I honestly don't get posts like these. IMHO the main selling point of Medium is not that you can easily set up a blog, there's plenty of platforms that let you do that easily, or great tools like OP's for setting up your own. The point is that there is already a large audience you can reach with your posts, and Medium actively works to distribute your posts to people who would be interested in them. The equivalent he…

Why does it have to be a trade-off? Something like WriteFreely gives you both your own blog and (via the Fediverse) an audience.

Don't want to run your own? Then pay for a Write.as account to have Matt run it for you.

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