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Folks looking for a Medium alternative, please checkout https://diff.blog . It's an aggregator of developer and engineering blogs I built an year back. It has been growing steadily since. The reason why I built this was to solve the problem of disoveralibilty of self hosted blogs. It's hard for bloggers with self hosted blogs to reach a big audience. So a lot of them end up moving to a platform like Medium which give…
This is awesome!!!
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Add a free tiered CDN in front of that and you're certainly good to survive any spike in traffic.
You can also try one of the many providers that will host your static site for you for free, like GitHub Pages.
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Pelican [1] works this way, and I love it for my blog/website. I write a post in markdown, commit and run a pelican-provided script that uploads the generated site to the hosting server. The script-running could be done with a hook. [1] https://blog.getpelican.com/
Um... No, it doesn't. > I write a post in markdown, commit and run a pelican-provided script that uploads the generated site to the hosting server. The script-running could be done with a hook. This is exactly what I don't want to deal with. Sure, I could use a ci service but this is a typical case of over-engineering a simple problem.
On my end I write a new markdown post and push it to Github.
At that point Netlify takes over to rebuild and redeploy my site including the new post. It's pretty trivial to do.
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You can also try one of the many providers that will host your static site for you for free, like GitHub Pages.
True, but the point of the article was to avoid centralized providers as you may inadvertently be shadowbanned. I have much more faith/trust in Github than Medium, but nonetheless it still suffers algorithmic approaches to content.
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Indeed. It seems shady until you realize why sites do this. Probably the only way to truly understand is to run a site with user generated content for a while. There will be people using your site that just need to go away. They're different from your typical pharmaceutical spammer because they genuinely think they're not doing anything wrong. If you tell them to stop posting affiliate links to timeshares, they'll pu…
Appreciate that perspective, makes sense. But it's still fundamentally injurious to the other person, and furthermore, in an uneven power dynamic. Also, your power doesn't automatically mean you're right. I wonder how to solve it. Maybe shadow banning is quite fair and necessary and the answer is for people to educate themselves about it and go to other places where it won't happen to them. #rollyourown These matters…
"It’s always better to own your platform" - 100% i listen to some Joe Rogan's podcast when he got some interesting guests. i don't remember which one but Joe mentioned Twitter ban Zuby for a reply to someone with "OK, dude". i look up Zuby and yup. Twitter ban Zuby for saying "OK, dude" to someone. how the fuck is "OK, dude" hateful? Joe said Zuby is the nicest guy that he ever meet and Joe is right. they come for Zu…
No, they didn't.
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> Ideally I wanted not so much a generator but rather something that is completely self-contained. Essentially add a markdown or html file, commit and move on. Could you explain what you mean here?
As I said, make it fully self-contained without relying on "builds" or any other mumbo-jumbo, the way you would with sphinx or hugo or whatever. Essentially add a new html or markdown file, put whatever you want in it, let's call it "something.md". Then add a link from your index page to "#/something.md" and not deal with builds or styling or whatever, simply commit and move on and have it take care of all the html.…
There's one thing I want to scream at every front-end developer out there: STOP OPENING POPUPS WHEN I'M SELECTING TEXT! Again: STOP OPENING POPUPS WHEN I'M SELECTING TEXT!
No, you should stop with your compulsive behavior of selecting text for no reason at all. Fix the cause, not the symptom.
- great for casual blogging
- very cheap to host
- monetization tools built-in