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I can see being it received like that. But the issue is deeper. Take a regular thousand line site and strip the newlines. It is not a same thing. A fact that bu
by sramov 16y ago
I can see being it received like that. But the issue is deeper. Take a regular thousand line site and strip the newlines. It is not a same thing. A fact that buildout depends on so many utilities and little scripts and glue makes it clear the result is something a majority of people would not bother messing with. I bother because I really do care about the little differences. There is also no body, html, head, any divs or optional end tags etc.
On the website, it is clearly stated I am a minimalist and perfectionist. The URL slug of this article also reveals something :)
As for the title, it might be perceived as catchy. But I like nice titles on my sites and the fact I self publish entries (because of the HN blog comments experiment -- which I am happy with) makes it even harder.
Is it not a one-line website? :) Short and accurate title I would say.
- efsavage 16y agoBut your buildout "now ended up requiring Haskell (GHC, Pandoc), Java, Python 2, Python 3, lxml, pyquery and YUI Compressor for my site to build!" I don't think I'd call something that was built in 3 languages, one with two versions, as minimalist.
- sramov 16y agoThose are just tools. A means to an end. The end result is minimal. In essence, it is only one small Makefile, which calls various external scripts. Much like in life, where minimalism often involves more work. It is harder to design something simple, then something complex.