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I had no idea I never wrote anything in June. What happened in the first half of 2010 I wrote about here: http://paulgraham.com/top.html http://paulgraham.com

by pg 16y ago

I had no idea I never wrote anything in June. What happened in the first half of 2010 I wrote about here: http://paulgraham.com/top.html http://paulgraham.com/top.html

brc 16y ago
How does it feel to be so thoroughly analysed in a purely numerical fashion? I would feel as though things were being turned up about myself that I never even thought about.
- pg 16y ago
  My first reaction is curiosity, the second is a sort of flinching at the probable reaction of haters (whose reactions I've internalized by this point) to the idea that it matters what month I write things in, and the third is that I really should work harder. Especially in June.
duck 16y ago
Paul, two questions I've always wanted to ask and now seems like the right time: Why do you use an image for your essay titles? What do you use to write and publish your essays to your site?
- pg 16y ago
  Both have the same answer: Yahoo Store. It was written in an era when browsers had about 3 fonts, so when sites wanted to to do anything interesting with typography the text had to be rendered as images. One day I'll move my site, but there's a bit of activation energy involved, because I'll have to write another site builder first.
  - pygy_ 16y ago
    Unless you want to build it from scratch, it's a matter of a two or three dozen lines of glue code between libraries. I've recently built a custom, light CMS for a friend based on * PHP * Smarty for the templates [1] * a few YAML files for the DB [2] * Markdown and Smartypants for the text markup. One file per blog post. [3][4] * Some .htaccess magic to create clean URLs Sprinkle some CSS on top and you've got a new site :-). I didn't implement any search facility, but I guess there are several libraries that cover that functionality as well. See [5], [6] and for Common Lisp equivalents. I couldn't find a mature YAML parser but JSON is of course a decent alternative. There's [7], but the project is on hold and not documented at all. I guess the biggest hurdle would be the translation of the Yahoo Store posts into Markdown. Note that Markdown supports embedded HTML, which should make things easier. - 1. http://www.smarty.net/ http://www.smarty.net/ 2. http://code.google.com/p/spyc/ http://code.google.com/p/spyc/ 3. http://michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/extra/ http://michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/extra/ 4. http://michelf.com/projects/php-smartypants/ http://michelf.com/projects/php-smartypants/ - 5. http://common-lisp.net/project/cl-markdown/ http://common-lisp.net/project/cl-markdown/ 6. http://common-lisp.net/project/cl-json/ http://common-lisp.net/project/cl-json/ 7. http://github.com/tychoish/cl_yaml http://github.com/tychoish/cl_yaml
  - cool-RR 16y ago
    It's funny that you don't simply hire someone to do this.
    - ericd 16y ago
      Hiring and managing people for a project is a good amount of work in itself.

by pg 16y ago

I had no idea I never wrote anything in June. What happened in the first half of 2010 I wrote about here: http://paulgraham.com/top.html http://paulgraham.com/top.html

brc 16y ago

How does it feel to be so thoroughly analysed in a purely numerical fashion? I would feel as though things were being turned up about myself that I never even thought about.

pg 16y ago
My first reaction is curiosity, the second is a sort of flinching at the probable reaction of haters (whose reactions I've internalized by this point) to the idea that it matters what month I write things in, and the third is that I really should work harder. Especially in June.

duck 16y ago

Paul, two questions I've always wanted to ask and now seems like the right time: Why do you use an image for your essay titles? What do you use to write and publish your essays to your site?

pg 16y ago
Both have the same answer: Yahoo Store. It was written in an era when browsers had about 3 fonts, so when sites wanted to to do anything interesting with typography the text had to be rendered as images. One day I'll move my site, but there's a bit of activation energy involved, because I'll have to write another site builder first.
- pygy_ 16y ago
  Unless you want to build it from scratch, it's a matter of a two or three dozen lines of glue code between libraries. I've recently built a custom, light CMS for a friend based on * PHP * Smarty for the templates [1] * a few YAML files for the DB [2] * Markdown and Smartypants for the text markup. One file per blog post. [3][4] * Some .htaccess magic to create clean URLs Sprinkle some CSS on top and you've got a new site :-). I didn't implement any search facility, but I guess there are several libraries that cover that functionality as well. See [5], [6] and for Common Lisp equivalents. I couldn't find a mature YAML parser but JSON is of course a decent alternative. There's [7], but the project is on hold and not documented at all. I guess the biggest hurdle would be the translation of the Yahoo Store posts into Markdown. Note that Markdown supports embedded HTML, which should make things easier. - 1. http://www.smarty.net/ http://www.smarty.net/ 2. http://code.google.com/p/spyc/ http://code.google.com/p/spyc/ 3. http://michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/extra/ http://michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/extra/ 4. http://michelf.com/projects/php-smartypants/ http://michelf.com/projects/php-smartypants/ - 5. http://common-lisp.net/project/cl-markdown/ http://common-lisp.net/project/cl-markdown/ 6. http://common-lisp.net/project/cl-json/ http://common-lisp.net/project/cl-json/ 7. http://github.com/tychoish/cl_yaml http://github.com/tychoish/cl_yaml
- cool-RR 16y ago
  It's funny that you don't simply hire someone to do this.
  - ericd 16y ago
    Hiring and managing people for a project is a good amount of work in itself.