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Re: Bashblog – a single bash script to create blogs

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Post by bluebarbet »

StilesCrisis wrote: post #29
bluebarbet wrote: post #26

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This reads like parody! In a sane world (and I believe the HN community rules are fairly sane) we should be upvoting things that are interesting , or insightful , or informative , or otherwise tickle our curiosity . Not just because we agree with them! After all, who cares that I agree with something? Everyone has an opinion on everything, opinions in themselves are cheap and uninteresting.

It's not interesting or insightful to take potshots at a project because it's hosted on GitHub.

It's downright intolerant to downvote (as opposed to not upvote) a comment which simply advocates values in line with FOSS. I even said I would like to use this program.

Re: Bashblog – a single bash script to create blogs

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Post by microtonal »

chiply314 wrote: post #21
nicbou wrote: post #16

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I use Python for that, since I know it will always be on my machine. Is this what you have in mind?

Yeah but i have Python PTSD from all this Python 2 vs. 3 shit :D

I'm sure that there are still Python 2 codebases there running an unsupported interpreter, but for most people that has been at least 5-10 years ago. Also, the Python project learned a lot from the messy transition, that I think it's unlikely to happen again.

Re: Bashblog – a single bash script to create blogs

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Post by tomwojcik »

chiply314 wrote: post #21
nicbou wrote: post #16

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I use Python for that, since I know it will always be on my machine. Is this what you have in mind?

Yeah but i have Python PTSD from all this Python 2 vs. 3 shit :D

That was almost 20 years ago! We migrated 2 to 3 10 years ago. I'd say I moved on. I doubt there will ever be py4 :)

Re: Bashblog – a single bash script to create blogs

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Post by edoceo »

chiply314 wrote: post #21
nicbou wrote: post #16

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I use Python for that, since I know it will always be on my machine. Is this what you have in mind?

Yeah but i have Python PTSD from all this Python 2 vs. 3 shit :D

Perl still loves you and will always be there.

Re: Bashblog – a single bash script to create blogs

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Post by k3vinw »

hkt wrote: post #3

Glorious. I used a similar system back in the day, nanoblogger: https://nanoblogger.sourceforge.net/

Awesome! I’m the author and I created that project as a way to teach myself Bash at the time. I called it NanoBlogger because it was inspired by MicroBlogger, yet another Bash blog.

I still have fond memories of the open source community’s warm welcome and amazing contributions to the project.

Re: Bashblog – a single bash script to create blogs

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Post by [deleted] »

PaulRobinson wrote: post #13
IshKebab wrote: post #7

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Awful old Bash. I hate it. Seriously I don't know why you'd do this in Bash. Crazy choice.

Known system dependency that's (almost) always on the system you're on. I remember somebody once telling me that they had learned vi because "it was always installed". Well, no, technically, the only editor you can be sure is there is ed. So, you know, learn that. I was surprised that they actually did. Bash is syntactically not perfect, I agree. However it's a well known, mature, stable environment. LLMs can write i…

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Re: Bashblog – a single bash script to create blogs

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Post by IdiotSavage »

feelamee wrote: post #25
bluebarbet wrote: post #6

This is a good example of a program I would like to use if it was distributed in the standard repo of my OS, rather than totally unvetted on the Microsoft Github page of a random developer. PS: I don't know why HN allows downvoting seeing how it is always so abused. Nothing I wrote here is factually false, and what remains is just my personal opinion as a principled user of FOSS. A bit of tolerance for others' viewpo…

for what we need downvoting and upvoting? I thought: - upvote if you like/agree - downvote if you dont like/disagree Am I wrong?

You're wrong.

"Users should vote and comment when they run across something they personally find interesting—not for promotion."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#:~:text=Use...

Re: Bashblog – a single bash script to create blogs

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Post by bluebarbet »

dspillett wrote: post #22
mikae1 wrote: post #11

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Package management in the distro is also how FOSS works?

Things that end up in curated package repositories like those of the various significant distros, have usually spent time growing on the random developer's own page (most common in the past) or said random developer's account on a forge like github (most common in more modern times). Standard repos might be were many discover things, but those things don't normally get there until they've build a following, so the ra…

Fair enough. It would be nice if more developers would at least consider using the forges that don't belong to an ethically compromised big-tech oligopolist. The options are there.

Re: Bashblog – a single bash script to create blogs

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Post by afandian »

PaulRobinson wrote: post #13
IshKebab wrote: post #7

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Awful old Bash. I hate it. Seriously I don't know why you'd do this in Bash. Crazy choice.

Known system dependency that's (almost) always on the system you're on. I remember somebody once telling me that they had learned vi because "it was always installed". Well, no, technically, the only editor you can be sure is there is ed. So, you know, learn that. I was surprised that they actually did. Bash is syntactically not perfect, I agree. However it's a well known, mature, stable environment. LLMs can write i…

I’ve been down this path (it was a script for scraping and extracting text). You write your text utility in bash. It works. Then you need a regex so you use sed.

Then you wonder why it doesn’t work in your other environment. Then you find that GNU vs BSD sed have different syntax.

Better to start with Python once you’re doing more than coordinating well known other tools.

Re: Bashblog – a single bash script to create blogs

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Post by mystifyingpoi »

bluebarbet wrote: post #6

This is a good example of a program I would like to use if it was distributed in the standard repo of my OS, rather than totally unvetted on the Microsoft Github page of a random developer. PS: I don't know why HN allows downvoting seeing how it is always so abused. Nothing I wrote here is factually false, and what remains is just my personal opinion as a principled user of FOSS. A bit of tolerance for others' viewpo…

> This is a good example of a program I would like to use if it was distributed in the standard repo of my OS

So why are you waiting? Be the change you seek. Simply become a maintainer of a distro, and publish the package there. Repeat for all the major distros.

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