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I need a medium account to read this for some reason.

by lxe 6y ago

tstrimple 6y ago
> "This is your last free member-only story this month. Sign up for Medium and get an extra one" Well, that's about the end of medium I think.
- kevin_thibedeau 6y ago
  Turn off Javascript. They don't (yet) have an SPA and it degrades appropriately for disabled users.
  - tstrimple 6y ago
    I'm not going to expend any effort to circumvent medium's nonsense. The content there isn't of consistently high enough quality to justify jumping through any hoops. Any barriers they put up will just result in me not consuming content hosted there.
    - freedomben 6y ago
      Open a private tab (or in Chrome "incognito") and it will work fine.
- simongr3dal 6y ago
  I wonder how “publishers” feel about that. I would feel rather angry if Medium dictated that people couldn’t access my blog posts.
  - tempodox 6y ago
    But that's exactly what to expect when people donate their writings to a platform they have no control over. There are always those who need to learn the hard way.
- domano 6y ago
  Not logging in gives you a better experience than being logged in, especially when you can use incognito mode. Only website that punishes being logged in.
gcblkjaidfj 6y ago
here's the summary: it opens with "We recently migrated our internal CLI tool from Node JS to Golang". It's just a way to keep using the hammer they already had, no matter if the problem is a nail or not. could be titled "how to hack your private npm server to be a OS package manager, because we don't want to learn our OS packaging"
- 8note 6y ago
  Which raises the question: package management is just a bunch of nails; why do I need a specific hammer for each type of nail?
  - longcommonname 6y ago
    Because there are great tools like artifactory that can handle all the arrifact types.
  - gcblkjaidfj 6y ago
    > why do I need a specific hammer i call it "lazy opinionated adoption". Why do you use apt in debian and yum on redhat? Same reason as you write javascript for the browser. Just because someone put it there at some point. Would it be better to use python or anything else in the browser? sure! why don't you do it? because many people have done it before and there's no adoption! package manager and languages are just like curl or wget. try one, command not found? try the other. meh. ...until you find people that assume other people can't learn. Then they will create a third option because other-people-are-dumb and it will be worse than both options you had before.
higerordermap 6y ago
For future reference: block JS or open in incognito to bypass medium popups.

I need a medium account to read this for some reason.

by lxe 6y ago

I need a medium account to read this for some reason.

> "This is your last free member-only story this month. Sign up for Medium and get an extra one" Well, that's about the end of medium I think.

kevin_thibedeau 6y ago
Turn off Javascript. They don't (yet) have an SPA and it degrades appropriately for disabled users.
- tstrimple 6y ago
  I'm not going to expend any effort to circumvent medium's nonsense. The content there isn't of consistently high enough quality to justify jumping through any hoops. Any barriers they put up will just result in me not consuming content hosted there.
  - freedomben 6y ago
    Open a private tab (or in Chrome "incognito") and it will work fine.
simongr3dal 6y ago
I wonder how “publishers” feel about that. I would feel rather angry if Medium dictated that people couldn’t access my blog posts.
- tempodox 6y ago
  But that's exactly what to expect when people donate their writings to a platform they have no control over. There are always those who need to learn the hard way.
domano 6y ago
Not logging in gives you a better experience than being logged in, especially when you can use incognito mode. Only website that punishes being logged in.

gcblkjaidfj 6y ago

here's the summary: it opens with "We recently migrated our internal CLI tool from Node JS to Golang". It's just a way to keep using the hammer they already had, no matter if the problem is a nail or not. could be titled "how to hack your private npm server to be a OS package manager, because we don't want to learn our OS packaging"

8note 6y ago
Which raises the question: package management is just a bunch of nails; why do I need a specific hammer for each type of nail?
- longcommonname 6y ago
  Because there are great tools like artifactory that can handle all the arrifact types.
- gcblkjaidfj 6y ago
  > why do I need a specific hammer i call it "lazy opinionated adoption". Why do you use apt in debian and yum on redhat? Same reason as you write javascript for the browser. Just because someone put it there at some point. Would it be better to use python or anything else in the browser? sure! why don't you do it? because many people have done it before and there's no adoption! package manager and languages are just like curl or wget. try one, command not found? try the other. meh. ...until you find people that assume other people can't learn. Then they will create a third option because other-people-are-dumb and it will be worse than both options you had before.

higerordermap 6y ago

For future reference: block JS or open in incognito to bypass medium popups.