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I caved and added a "toggle pointless gifs" button, history will judge me well
by unwttng 9y ago
I caved and added a "toggle pointless gifs" button, history will judge me well
- striking 9y agoThank you. Normally I'd enjoy the "pointless gifs" but they make it hard for me to read your article at work.
- unwttng 9y agoYou got it. Spoilsport :P
- jnbiche 9y agoToo late. I finally added media.giphy.com to my UBlock filter. This one put me over the edge, since I couldn't focus on the content. However, otherwise an excellent introductory article. Got me reading about Shannon, Kolmogorov, and information theory now.
- unwttng 9y agoNooooo!
- komali2 9y agoI highly recommend Stephen King's "On Writing." The basic lesson - if it isn't needed, take it out. Kill your babies. The GIFs are the "your babies" of this article.
- jwdunne 9y agoGreat book recommendation btw. On Writing Well by William Zissner is a great one too. Less autobiographical (but the Stephen King bio IS great and inspirational - still recommend)
- komali2 9y agoOh, I forgot to do what I always do when I recommend King's book - skip the autobiography at the beginning :P Maybe if someone really likes King's works it'd be worth reading, but I didn't find it that interesting. I think perhaps if someone wanted to make a career out of writing, it'd be good to get a perspective on what it took him to "make it." Otherwise, eh.
- jwdunne 9y agoI quite liked it. The struggle was interesting. Reminded me of The War of Art by Pressfield, but less or more extreme depending on how you look at it.
- kirkules 9y agoI was able to actually read the article because of this. Thanks.
- dfc 9y agoI actually came here to commend the author for letting me opt out of the nonsense. It may not seem like a big deal for you but the images are distracting to me, require more scrolling in order to reference something that was mentioned previously and do not add anything to your content. BTW I think your content is great and I imagine you think so to. You commented on the fact that most of the comments were about the GIFs and not the content. I think that should be a not so subtle clue about the value of some lady waving in front of a green screen.
- pmoriarty 9y agoI read 90% of my content in emacs-w3m, in the terminal, where no images load unless I deliberately want them to. It also has the advantage of getting rid of javascript and most page design nonsense, flash, non-text ads, and various "Web 2.0" annoyances. The result is beautiful, consistently formatted, lightweight, and perfectly readable plain text (fully integrated with my editor/OS, incidentally).
- mdevere 9y agothe most hacker news comment ever
- ktta 9y agoThis comes close, but I think there was one where one user talked about how they use Spacemacs (Emacs with Vim style editing), and use Org files[1] to bascially plan their life. Meetings, Calendar events, reminders, notes, TODOs, you name it. [1]: http://orgmode.org/ http://orgmode.org/
- wingerlang 9y agoSame here. They also make me see the author as a bit immature (not necessarily true, but still).
- akud 9y agoThis is great content! Do you mind if I ask how you made it? Specifically the interactive demo? I've been working myself on a project[1] to explore tools for interactive demos, but so far I've just done one with a toy piece of content. 1: https://akud.github.io/visualization-blogs/posts/01_content_distribution_networks/index.html https://akud.github.io/visualization-blogs/posts/01_content_...
- jnbiche 9y agoHe made it with React.