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So right now, I'm quite happy with how it's going and I have a list of articles to write. But writing a post takes multiple hours, so I don't know what the frequency will be on the long run.
I had personal site on shared hosting with blog, microblog, "lifestream", photo gallery in the late 00s. It's been a 'placeholder' status for redevelopment since I think about 2011-12. I got a job and started (over)working. Bugs/exploits in the PHP framework I was using took the site down a few times. Maintenance lagged, and I eventually zipped everything and shut it down. I've found a better work life balance over t…
This is why I use a static site generator. No security fix is ever urgent. No risk of needing to make a bunch of changes in case I need to move host, and they have a slightly different version of PHP. The thing never "fails to start" after a reboot. No database that can cause problems. It's just files. Anything can host just files. My first site actually started as what we'd now call a static site generator back in t…
Unless you walk on eggs more carefully than in Stalin's Russia and only talk of weather and puppies, you are liable for being torn apart by an angry mob of mediocres who finds fulfilment in destroying a defenseless guy's life.
Even many personal blogs these days are suspect, they’re building a brand. I like this guy is doing his own thing.
Can you tell me the difference between building a brand and this guy ? I struggle to understand what this means, as I dont know what "building a brand" means when a person does it.
In reality an interesting topic is one where the answers are unknown. You might be biased or super objective, you might carefully compare theories and evidence on both sides or perspectives of an argument or theory. At some point you will have the tendency to include what YOU think about it. It doesn't matter what that is, you will lose readers.
Perhaps you welcome Jesus in your life or reject him. One could switch between those two every other week and if that is what is on ones mind one should just talk about it. Talk about it often enough and you will build an audience of similar doubt while some Christians and atheist won't stick around.
For those with more patience or sufficiently impressed with your other writings you need only repeat the "offense" often enough.
Surely a thoughtful person should have an opinion about every empire, corporation or ideology murdering, maiming or torturing people? If you are completely indifferent about it, that would be your opinion.
Disclose your opinion and those who don't agree wont be amused. You have to actively avoid the topic which isn't easy as everything in the universe is connected.
You can be Steve Jobs, that doesn't mean you can just talk about alternative medicine. Facts have nothing to do with it.
I can write cookie cutter stuff that everyone can read (perhaps even enjoy!) but my private thoughts gravitate straight towards the controversy and I ponder those things deeply, sometimes for decades. If I mistakenly write those thoughts down Best I can hope for is an audience of anger. If you talk about something it means you must believe in it.
Someone on twitter just asked what the rope hanging from the American flag is. I got a 12 hour ban for saying "I dunno, it seems enough rope to hang yourself?"
That is your free speech absolutism sandwich all bagged up for ya. ha-ha
I have exactly one IRL friend that cares about my technology stuff, but he lives far away and we don't see each other in person too often. My ex tolerates me talking about it a little bit before he tells me to shut up, but that's it. It kind of sucks. I've just re-internalized to that nothing I do really matters, and therefore neither do I.
Formally, it's an exercise in learning the W3C Accessibility standards, but the content is very much "write for yourself".
I have exactly one IRL friend that cares about my technology stuff, but he lives far away and we don't see each other in person too often. My ex tolerates me talking about it a little bit before he tells me to shut up, but that's it. It kind of sucks. I've just re-internalized to that nothing I do really matters, and therefore neither do I.
That’s not necessarily negative. I’ll sometimes say that to myself when I’m feeling down as a way of freeing myself from whatever thoughts are feeling too heavy. I’m not really into stoicism, but I think it’s what memento mori is getting at.