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Re: Why I left Medium and moved back to my own domain

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Post by cupcakestand »

Entangled wrote: post #25

Medium is a blog platform and a news aggregator. I use it mostly for consuming news by using tags of interest. Good luck with that writing your own blog on your own server. Oh, and the daily newsletter is a delightful joy. Discoverability is key to the success of Medium. https://medium.com/tag/swift/latest https://medium.com/tag/kotlin/latest https://medium.com/tag/python/latest https://medium.com/tag/java/latest Or…

Why should I discover content on Medium?

This job is done by HN and Reddit and unfortunately Facebook if I am on FB. I don't have time to get sucked in another feed.

Re: Why I left Medium and moved back to my own domain

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Post by s3nnyy »

dullgiulio wrote: post #84
s3nnyy wrote: post #59

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I am not sure if I am overvaluing Medium but I feel that I owe the existence of my recruiting agency to them: - In November 2014 I published "8 reasons why I moved to Switzerland to work in tech" ( https://medium.com/@iwaninzurich/eight-reasons-why-i-moved-t... ) - I immediately started getting CVs from people who googled "work in Switzerland in tech". Then, I asked local startups and firms if they would pay me if I…

Nah, I don't think it's Medium. That article featured here on HN and was commented a lot, I remember it myself. I think it was a good article about a niche topic. Maybe being on Medium helped in making it viral to begin with...

It was never really "featured" on HN. I just posted it every now and then, when I thought it fits the conversation.

Re: Why I left Medium and moved back to my own domain

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Post by cupcakestand »

sigstoat wrote: post #89
cupcakestand wrote: post #76

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I disagree. It doesn't matter what kind of coder you are, at some point you always deal with a shell. And setting up a blog on bare metal is done in few minutes on a shell. If you have never faced a shell or a remote server as a developer then you should find a toy project to do so. It's not the worst skill to have. Moreover, I wouldn't see basic HTML or CSS as specific knowledge. This is something every coder knows…

> Moreover, I wouldn't see basic HTML or CSS as specific knowledge. This is something every coder knows (like English), of course not advanced layout stuff like Flexbox but the basic of HTML and CSS are common knowledge i work in a building full of embedded developers who wouldn't know a css selector if it bit them on the ass. what use is it to any of them?

> i work in a building full of embedded developers who wouldn't know a css selector if it bit them on the ass.

Maybe, maybe not. Even embedded coders face HTML/CSS at some point when their embedded devices incorporates a webserver for some admin interface which sends HTML/CSS to the world (e.g. a router). Or they have create an API doc for their newly created embedded system, on the web. There are many examples.

What I am saying is that HTMl/CSS is ubiquitous in tech and besides, not that hard to grok compared to code in Assembly or C for an embedded system. And again they don't need HTML or CSS anyway. They just need to know a bit of bash, git, Markdown and a SSG of their choice.

Re: Why I left Medium and moved back to my own domain

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Post by sigstoat »

cupcakestand wrote: post #94
sigstoat wrote: post #89

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> Moreover, I wouldn't see basic HTML or CSS as specific knowledge. This is something every coder knows (like English), of course not advanced layout stuff like Flexbox but the basic of HTML and CSS are common knowledge i work in a building full of embedded developers who wouldn't know a css selector if it bit them on the ass. what use is it to any of them?

> i work in a building full of embedded developers who wouldn't know a css selector if it bit them on the ass. Maybe, maybe not. Even embedded coders face HTML/CSS at some point when their embedded devices incorporates a webserver for some admin interface which sends HTML/CSS to the world (e.g. a router). Or they have create an API doc for their newly created embedded system, on the web. There are many examples. What…

> Maybe, maybe not.

uh it isn't some sort of weird toss-up? i'm referring to specific people who i know.

> Even embedded coders face HTML/CSS at some point when their embedded devices incorporates a webserver for some admin interface which sends HTML/CSS to the world (e.g. a router). Or they have create an API doc for their newly created embedded system, on the web. There are many examples.

there's a whole world of embedded stuff that doesn't have admin interfaces, doesn't have APIs, etc. you can concoct increasingly strained examples all day long, and there are still folks doing work you didn't realize was even a thing, who'll have long and profitable careers without touching a line of CSS.

Re: Why I left Medium and moved back to my own domain

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Post by steventhedev »

copperx wrote: post #19
francis-io wrote: post #18

Using something like Jekyll to create a static blog lets you put it on AWS S3. For all but the highest traffic sites the bandwidth cost is trivial and you totally remove all the issues with uptime and securing a server.

Same applies to GitHub pages.

GHP means you're subject to github's downtime, which tends towards more frequent than s3 (outside us-east-1). Worse, you can't run HTTPS with GHP and a custom domain.

You could use CloudFlare's flexible TLS, but it's unsecured from their system to your site, which has resulted in carrier level content being injected[0].

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12091900

Re: Why I left Medium and moved back to my own domain

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Post by cupcakestand »

sigstoat wrote: post #95
cupcakestand wrote: post #94

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> i work in a building full of embedded developers who wouldn't know a css selector if it bit them on the ass. Maybe, maybe not. Even embedded coders face HTML/CSS at some point when their embedded devices incorporates a webserver for some admin interface which sends HTML/CSS to the world (e.g. a router). Or they have create an API doc for their newly created embedded system, on the web. There are many examples. What…

> Maybe, maybe not. uh it isn't some sort of weird toss-up? i'm referring to specific people who i know. > Even embedded coders face HTML/CSS at some point when their embedded devices incorporates a webserver for some admin interface which sends HTML/CSS to the world (e.g. a router). Or they have create an API doc for their newly created embedded system, on the web. There are many examples. there's a whole world of e…

Ok, it's hard to imagine that such people exist but I believe what you say. You are right, they should rather use Medium.

Re: Why I left Medium and moved back to my own domain

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Post by bdcravens »

JoshMnem wrote: post #6

I don't understand why people write programming blogs on Medium. I think that managing a live website with its own server (rather than only working on other people's projects) is a very important skill. If you don't want to manage WordPress, try a static site generator like Metalsmith: https://github.com/segmentio/metalsmith Deploy on Digital Ocean or Linode for $5/month. Free hosting options include Github Pages and…

Why would a programmer use Github when they could easily run Gitlab on Digital Ocean?

Re: Why I left Medium and moved back to my own domain

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Post by dhruvkar »

I don't think this is an either/or situation.

Medium's value is in exposing new, (arguably) high-quality content to its readers.

Every so often, when you write an extra high-quality article, post it on medium as well, with a way for the reader to subscribe. It'll expose new readers to your writing and you still keep your content on your own platform.

Re: Why I left Medium and moved back to my own domain

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Post by vilmosi »

freehunter wrote: post #46
untog wrote: post #23

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I suspect it's because they didn't/don't want people to comment in the usual way - you can highlight text on an article and leave short comments in the relevant place if you want to do that. I think the comments section at the end was intended more as a place for lengthy reaction posts. It's why comments have "recommend" rather than "like" as a button. I might "like" someone saying "great post!" but I'm not going to…

Commenting on articles is a terrible method of interaction. Anti-spam is hard, and spammers always win. Trolls always win. Comments rarely add much to the discussion from the article, and they're often hard to follow. There's no reason to leave a comment saying "great post!". It's spam. It's unnecessary. Blogs are a wholly inappropriate place for back-and-forth discourse to happen simply because if I have a blog, it'…

> Commenting on articles is a terrible method of interaction. Anti-spam is hard, and spammers always win. Trolls always win.

But that's practically what HN is, yet I like to believe it's a good platform without too much spam or trolls.

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