Why I left Medium and moved back to my own domain

Post by corobo » Mon, Jul 31, 2017, 12:17 PM UTC

ValentineC wrote: post #211

corobo wrote: post #184

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Honestly no real reason other than it's the one I know and didn't want to spend any more time on finding software to write with instead of spending the time on writing Essentially it was the default option

Heh I can empathise. Two of my biggest reasons for wanting to move to a static site generator are actually to have actual control over the content (in markdown files, and because WordPress and its plugins do a fair bit of processing on the raw content), and because I'm more comfortable hacking in languages that aren't PHP. That seems to have stopped me from writing though.

Post by Mikho » Mon, Jul 31, 2017, 12:31 PM UTC

tyingq wrote: post #2

"Writing comments to Medium posts feels awkward because each comment is treated as a blog post." This is also awkward from the reader point of view. Trying to follow a comment chain on medium is frustrating as it only shows the first level, diving in switches pages, and often, a need to press a second "load all comments" button. Then the back button to wind your way back up. Is there some sound reasoning for why it w…

Post by xerophyte12932 » Mon, Jul 31, 2017, 12:45 PM UTC

Post by computerex » Mon, Jul 31, 2017, 1:19 PM UTC

movedx wrote: post #127

computerex wrote: post #52

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I use Hugo with Digital Ocean and GitHub. Simple nodejs express script is running via PM2 and is listening for GitHub messages and serving as a webhook. Whenever I push to the site repo on GitHub, the webhook fires, which fires the build script, which does a git pull and executes the hugo command to rebuild the site. It's a delightful experience.

That build process can be done using TravisCI for free, provided the GitHub repository containing your Hugo base is public (and why wouldn't it be?) This removes the need for that Droplet and its associated cost.

Post by WildGreenLeave » Mon, Jul 31, 2017, 1:35 PM UTC

wyclif wrote: post #206

SAI_Peregrinus wrote: post #128

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I'll use my Father as an example. He works for Autodesk, before that he worked for Revit (when they were a tiny startup before Autodesk bought them out). He writes code in C++ mostly (I think some C# these days). He doesn't use HTML or CSS, and has never learned either. Not because he can't, just because there's not been any point and because the amount of effort that would take is large enough to not be worth it. Wh…

I don't understand this, because C++ or C# are both high-level programming languages. HTML, on the other hand, is simple markup language. I'd think it would take somebody on that level a weekend to learn it, possibly a few weeks or a month to be confident writing it.