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What, serif fonts?
I don't believe the sites themselves make any stipulations about preferences regarding fonts. It's up to your browser. In any case: Regarding the downvoting: Bring it, bitches. ...just trying to set something straight about established cultural norms around the word "hacker".
Blogging Like a Hacker (2008)
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#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't believe the sites themselves make any stipulations about preferences regarding fonts. It's up to your browser. In any case: Regarding the downvoting: Bring it, bitches. ...just trying to set something straight about established cultural norms around the word "hacker".
I’m still not seeing what you’ve “set straight”.
Re: Blogging Like a Hacker (2008)
#13Posts go under the posts folder, uploaded as md files. It's very nice and clean. You can host a site on github pages and point your .com to their DNS servers.
It frees you up to focus on writing, and you have the benefit of markdown there if you need it.
Makes you wonder why a simple blog site needs to be interacting with a DB and making mad calls all over the place, with loads of insecure plugins and all the rest of it. Just give me simplicity :)
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I’m still not seeing what you’ve “set straight”.
Jekyll is about taking a few bytes of text and turning them into the multi-megabyte-monstrosity that a website is nowadays expected to be. A real hacker responds to that trend Nancy Reagan style. "Just say no".
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I’m still not seeing what you’ve “set straight”.
Jekyll is about taking a few bytes of text and turning them into the multi-megabyte-monstrosity that a website is nowadays expected to be. A real hacker responds to that trend Nancy Reagan style. "Just say no".
Not as slim as possible, but pretty darn small. My personal blog, using an even older command-line html templating engine (nanoblogger) weighs in at 3kb html, 1.8kb css, and a princely 13.7kb of js. (All from the code formatter I use)
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#17You call that blogging like a hacker? This is blogging like a hacker: https://www.stallman.org/archives/2019-jul-oct.html This is blogging like a hacker: https://blog.fefe.de/
Most of those blog posts aren’t longer than a paragraph.
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I’m still not seeing what you’ve “set straight”.
Jekyll is about taking a few bytes of text and turning them into the multi-megabyte-monstrosity that a website is nowadays expected to be. A real hacker responds to that trend Nancy Reagan style. "Just say no".
It's still five times times less data transferred than the Stallman microblog you linked.
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#19Fascinating. For those who click to read the comments before the actual article, this is Mr. Preston-Werner's introduction of Jekyll, the Ruby static site generator, to the world. He lays out his reasons for creating the tech: >>>First, all my writing would be stored in a Git repository. This would ensure that I could try out different ideas and explore a variety of posts all from the comfort of my preferred editor a…
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’m still not seeing what you’ve “set straight”.
Jekyll is about taking a few bytes of text and turning them into the multi-megabyte-monstrosity that a website is nowadays expected to be. A real hacker responds to that trend Nancy Reagan style. "Just say no".