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I didn't know Steve is on Medium. He's my favorite tech blogger, so that's an awesome development.
by thriftwy 9y ago
I didn't know Steve is on Medium. He's my favorite tech blogger, so that's an awesome development.
- mcherm 9y agoWhy? I see the move from independent blogs to universal use of Medium for tech blogging as a step backwards.
- gaius 9y agoMedium is a step up from what he was using before, Google+
- zeveb 9y agoI'm gonna give a shoutout to POSSE[0]: Publish on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere. Nothing wrong using Medium's infrastructure to serve one's articles, but the canonical version should always be under one's own control. [0] https://indieweb.org/POSSE https://indieweb.org/POSSE
- harlanji 9y agoThanks for this term, this is the model I'm using for a Vodcast for the past month or so... POSSE to RasPi for recording and syndication, serve edge-cache optimized segmented video content from CDN, RTMP to all the other networks. I'm mostly doing it to show that if it can be done for a Vodcast from a RasPi, it can be done for anything and inspire my artist friends (and have a platform for my creations as artist0 :). POSSE all the things.
- mcherm 9y agoOkay, I really like that concept and having a name for it makes it easier to discuss and advocate for. Thank you!
- lmm 9y agoMedium offers a consistent, no-nonsense design which is a nicer reading experience than most blogs, and made more so by not having irrelevant differences between different blogs.
- rocky1138 9y agoRSS solves this problem, since the content from many disparate sources appear in one place in whatever format you prefer. This is done without being beholden to one company who can change things on a whim (often to negative effect).
- lmm 9y agoOnly for reading (and even then, I've yet to find an RSS reader that looks as nice as medium). If you want to respond or comment then the RSS experience falls apart.
- rocky1138 9y agoIt's true that RSS is only good for reading. I think that's part of its name, though. If you want an RSS reader that looks as nice as Medium, then other people might also want that same thing! It might be worth a weekend project if you feel strongly enough about it.
- lmm 9y agoI don't think there's any money in it (I don't think there's any money in Medium either, frankly), and in terms of personal satisfaction I find Feedly adequate, though not as good-looking as Medium.
- icebraining 9y agoUnless the feed only shows an excerpt of each post, as is unfortunately not uncommon.
- benjaminjackman 9y agoI agree with the consistency point however there is never going to be a perfect for everyone version of consistency (in the same way there will never be a perfect pasta sauce that everyone picks as their absolute favorite). For example I really don’t find their designs to be particularly no-nonsense. I would actually prefer a more no-nonsense, absolutely minimally styled html. Like under 10 lines of css. Because I really like contrast, really really don’t care for a position sticky element right where my eyes naturally scan on mobile obscuring stuff, am fine with Open Sans, don’t need the extra page load time spent on who knows what. If there is a dial between form and function I would like to jam that dial to 100% function. Other people with vision issues really need large text formatted as white in black. Others still much prefer the aethestics of font other than Open Sans. It would be nice if somehow we could define precisely how we wanted our reading material formatted across all our devices and across all the varied ways we receive textual information. (Eg it would work with kindle, or in the growing number of electron apps, as well as in all the other software we use). And then sites just had to provide a minimal use of semantic html elements to make it work. So while medium does cleanup the box of chocolates mess of going to random blogs it turns all those chocolates into the one with the same minty flavor and some folks really don’t care for mint chocolates. So when they see a random blog post to them it’s a box of chocolates where they have a shot of winning, with medium it guaranteed to be something they don’t care for. Case in point I read another recent post don Stevie’s in my rss reader and that was pretty nice. Not sure if that will still be option (or for how long) now that he’s moving to medium.
- ocdtrekkie 9y agoHis "independent blog" was Blogger: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/ http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/ Let's call it a sidestep.
- shoover 9y agoI had to create an account, begrudgingly, to follow. This is just silly when I have a perfectly good feed reader that works for everyone else I care to follow.
- capisce 9y agohttps://medium.com/feed/@steve.yegge https://medium.com/feed/@steve.yegge
- shoover 9y agoThank you! Subscribed. I guess my feed reader wasn't quite as good as I thought. Well, medium got me signed up in the meantime :)
- ocdtrekkie 9y agoI went through this same process. Registered for Medium... googled on Bing how to subscribe to RSS, and then added the feed to my reader and logged back out of Medium.
- icebraining 9y agoI wouldn't blame your reader; Medium only puts the RSS tag on the main blog page (https://medium.com/@steve.yegge https://medium.com/@steve.yegge) and not on each post, which is IMO not a good practice.
- shoover 9y agoYou are right, I would have to be asking the reader to special case medium or search up the path from the post. In this case it is Feedly which is excellent and does special case the xkcd alt text so I was a little surprised they didn’t do the dirty work.
- shoover 9y agoTurns out that feed is too noisy. In addition to the stories, it includes an entry every time he interacts with a comment on a feed.