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Captures the nightmare of trying to blog something as a web developer. Step 1 - Set up your own custom blog Many steps later.. What happened? Who am I? What

by fouc 6y ago

Captures the nightmare of trying to blog something as a web developer. Step 1 - Set up your own custom blog Many steps later.. What happened? Who am I? What did I even want to write about?

kanobo 6y ago
That a common nightmare for many of us who are more in love with the setting-things-up part of every endeavor!
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rustybolt 6y ago
It's not as bad when you keep it as simple as possible. The first version of the 'generator' for my blog (shameless plug: rubenvannieuwpoort.nl) was written in one or two days. It's just a couple of bash scripts (and one Python script), really (see https://github.com/rubenvannieuwpoort/static-site-generator https://github.com/rubenvannieuwpoort/static-site-generator). Now I haven't wrote a lot since, but that has to do more with perfectionism and being busy).
- m463 6y ago
  It's ok, "Writing essays doesn't have to mean publishing them." http://paulgraham.com/useful.html http://paulgraham.com/useful.html
  - AstralStorm 6y ago
    However, publishing is not free, you pay in money, your ownership of the content or your viewer's privacy. That's if the publisher is actually decent and their mechanisms work.
    - m463 6y ago
      I was addressing the perfectionism - which paul graham's article talks about in a counter intuitive way (sort of "we will not serve a wine before it's time") As to "paying" I was trying to think of venues where you can publish without compromising. I think the answer might be something like a $5/mo droplet or something on a cloud service. There are nice venues to publish free, like here on hn, but you lose control of your work - for example, it could be taken down, it could be heckled, etc...
- mrmonkeyman 6y ago
  Two days you could have spent on writing 10 articles instead.
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hrishios 6y ago
This is oft-quoted but it's what always happens when I sit down to write something - https://imgur.com/gallery/rQIb4Vw https://imgur.com/gallery/rQIb4Vw Wait, something's slightly off with kramdown - this isn't right - 12 hours later you're recompiling to update dependencies, and your version of ruby is out of date. This is Jekyll specific, so YMMV - but if you're like me, probably not by much.

by fouc 6y ago

Captures the nightmare of trying to blog something as a web developer. Step 1 - Set up your own custom blog Many steps later.. What happened? Who am I? What did I even want to write about?

kanobo 6y ago

That a common nightmare for many of us who are more in love with the setting-things-up part of every endeavor!

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rustybolt 6y ago

It's not as bad when you keep it as simple as possible. The first version of the 'generator' for my blog (shameless plug: rubenvannieuwpoort.nl) was written in one or two days. It's just a couple of bash scripts (and one Python script), really (see https://github.com/rubenvannieuwpoort/static-site-generator https://github.com/rubenvannieuwpoort/static-site-generator). Now I haven't wrote a lot since, but that has to do more with perfectionism and being busy).

m463 6y ago
It's ok, "Writing essays doesn't have to mean publishing them." http://paulgraham.com/useful.html http://paulgraham.com/useful.html
- AstralStorm 6y ago
  However, publishing is not free, you pay in money, your ownership of the content or your viewer's privacy. That's if the publisher is actually decent and their mechanisms work.
  - m463 6y ago
    I was addressing the perfectionism - which paul graham's article talks about in a counter intuitive way (sort of "we will not serve a wine before it's time") As to "paying" I was trying to think of venues where you can publish without compromising. I think the answer might be something like a $5/mo droplet or something on a cloud service. There are nice venues to publish free, like here on hn, but you lose control of your work - for example, it could be taken down, it could be heckled, etc...
mrmonkeyman 6y ago
Two days you could have spent on writing 10 articles instead.

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hrishios 6y ago

This is oft-quoted but it's what always happens when I sit down to write something - https://imgur.com/gallery/rQIb4Vw https://imgur.com/gallery/rQIb4Vw Wait, something's slightly off with kramdown - this isn't right - 12 hours later you're recompiling to update dependencies, and your version of ruby is out of date. This is Jekyll specific, so YMMV - but if you're like me, probably not by much.