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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
by 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 agoIt's ok, "Writing essays doesn't have to mean publishing them." http://paulgraham.com/useful.html http://paulgraham.com/useful.html
- AstralStorm 6y agoHowever, 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 agoI 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 agoTwo days you could have spent on writing 10 articles instead.