What if the answer (to a gap) is in another field, where you have no interest and no aptitude?
Should you force yourself to learn that field for years to get to the good stuff?
Or, stop at the extent of your aptitude and interest?
How to Do Great Work
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Re: How to Do Great Work
#462It's 2023. Why do many websites featured here still not use HTTPS?
I quite like being able to do stuff simply. There's a lot of moaning as to what happened to the old internet where you could just put something up, why does it all end up gate keeped on medium, facebook and the like, and then when someone just puts some text on the web everyone moans that it isn't encrypted like medium, facebook and the like.
Re: How to Do Great Work
#463Not related to the post. I am genuinely curious. Does PG make his own titles? And why is it a gif instead of a regular text? I know the site has remained stuck in the 90s kind of web design and I quite like it. However, I fail to understand why the title has to be a gif instead of text. Is it autogenerating it in the backend or did someone actually write it out in some graphical software, exported the title to a gif…
It's auto generated using ImageMagick. A lot of that is because he wrote https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viaweb in 1995 when things were done like that and then used the same tech for his personal site.
Re: How to Do Great Work
#464Not related to the post. I am genuinely curious. Does PG make his own titles? And why is it a gif instead of a regular text? I know the site has remained stuck in the 90s kind of web design and I quite like it. However, I fail to understand why the title has to be a gif instead of text. Is it autogenerating it in the backend or did someone actually write it out in some graphical software, exported the title to a gif…
It's auto generated using ImageMagick. A lot of that is because he wrote https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viaweb in 1995 when things were done like that and then used the same tech for his personal site.
Thanks for this gem!
> A lot of that is because he wrote https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viaweb in 1995 when things were done like that and then used the same tech for his personal site
Makes sense considering the first version of CSS did not roll out up until 1996 at the very least.