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Ironically, the "about" and "projects" links on his blog are broken (which I guess has been generated by a static site generator).

darepublic 8y ago
Might have something to do with the fact its gh-pages
- falcolas 8y ago
  Which uses one of the most complicated static site generators out there... as in a blog which was valid one day wouldn't "compile" the next. It's just bloody markdown; how unnecessarily complicated is a system that can't compile markdown from one release to the next?
  - thoughtspile 8y ago
    Why no, github-pages does not enforce Jekyll! You can just put a bunch of HTML there. I use hexo, which I like. I could also write HTML by hand or generate directly from markdown. The default Jekyll setup does indeed rely on some implicit theming, which is not very convenient.
    - falcolas 8y ago
      Which has nothing to do with how terrible their static site generation tooling is. "You can bypass it" isn't a convincing argument that it's any good.
      - thoughtspile 8y ago
        I wouldn't even call it a bypass — it's there as a safety net for people who just dump a bunch of markdowns into the repo and expect it to work somehow — it does work somehow.
    - lloeki 8y ago
      > You can just put a bunch of HTML there If I were to already have the artifact files locally I wouldn't commit them in git and push to GitHub, I'd upload them straight to S3/Neocities/whatever. The whole point of Pages is to push some source material and have some CI/CD do the build and deploy.
thoughtspile 8y ago
Fair enough) But note that these links do not interfere the basic functionality of writing and reading blog posts, which I was going for above all. Anyways, I've just fixed it (might take some times until the cache expires, don't bash me over again ;-), thanks for the reminder!
- TeMPOraL 8y ago
  A tangential question: does Russian keyboard have the ")" character next to ".", or something? I see you and 'amaccuish making comments in this thread with the ")" char in place where a period should go.
  - maximente 8y ago
    it's their version of a smily face
    - TeMPOraL 8y ago
      Oh. Thanks, I learned something today.
  - thoughtspile 8y ago
    Oh, if you don't put that friendliness indicator after a sentence, people assume you're talking aggressively.
    - TeMPOraL 8y ago
      I didn't know until now that this is the Russian equivalent of ":)".

darepublic 8y ago

Might have something to do with the fact its gh-pages

falcolas 8y ago
Which uses one of the most complicated static site generators out there... as in a blog which was valid one day wouldn't "compile" the next. It's just bloody markdown; how unnecessarily complicated is a system that can't compile markdown from one release to the next?
- thoughtspile 8y ago
  Why no, github-pages does not enforce Jekyll! You can just put a bunch of HTML there. I use hexo, which I like. I could also write HTML by hand or generate directly from markdown. The default Jekyll setup does indeed rely on some implicit theming, which is not very convenient.
  - falcolas 8y ago
    Which has nothing to do with how terrible their static site generation tooling is. "You can bypass it" isn't a convincing argument that it's any good.
    - thoughtspile 8y ago
      I wouldn't even call it a bypass — it's there as a safety net for people who just dump a bunch of markdowns into the repo and expect it to work somehow — it does work somehow.
  - lloeki 8y ago
    > You can just put a bunch of HTML there If I were to already have the artifact files locally I wouldn't commit them in git and push to GitHub, I'd upload them straight to S3/Neocities/whatever. The whole point of Pages is to push some source material and have some CI/CD do the build and deploy.

thoughtspile 8y ago

Fair enough) But note that these links do not interfere the basic functionality of writing and reading blog posts, which I was going for above all. Anyways, I've just fixed it (might take some times until the cache expires, don't bash me over again ;-), thanks for the reminder!

TeMPOraL 8y ago
A tangential question: does Russian keyboard have the ")" character next to ".", or something? I see you and 'amaccuish making comments in this thread with the ")" char in place where a period should go.
- maximente 8y ago
  it's their version of a smily face
  - TeMPOraL 8y ago
    Oh. Thanks, I learned something today.
- thoughtspile 8y ago
  Oh, if you don't put that friendliness indicator after a sentence, people assume you're talking aggressively.
  - TeMPOraL 8y ago
    I didn't know until now that this is the Russian equivalent of ":)".