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I find it funny (and perhaps ironic!) that people would want their thoughts kept in some obscure row and obscure column of a remote SQL database. But perhaps i
by nodemaker 15y ago
I find it funny (and perhaps ironic!) that people would want their thoughts kept in some obscure row and obscure column of a remote SQL database.
But perhaps it is better than not storing and sharing your thoughts at all!
In any case...Merry Christmas HN!
- zrail 15y agoHow is that ironic? Thoughts have to be stored somewhere and databases happen to be really good at storing things.
- nodemaker 15y agoIt is ironic because the real deep reason we share our thoughts is because we want them to stand out! Databases are indeed good at storing millions and billions of things and they are designed for it.But no human being is individually capable of creating content that really justifies a "dynamic programming oriented query plan generation" each time someone wishes to access his thoughts! tl;dr My argument is that static site generation for personal blogs is common sense!
- zrail 15y agoSure. My counter-argument is that for multi-tenant hosting like tumblr where millions of people keep their personal blogs, keeping posts in a database is common sense because they're a known quantity. Backup strategies, optimization techniques, operations procedures are all well known and battle tested. Also, creating content using a web-based editor that saves to a database is very easy for not-so-technical people to wrap their minds around. Static site generators? Not so much.
- nodemaker 15y agoYes sites like tumblr definitely make sense...My argument is against running your self-hosted personal blog with an SQL server! And of course...my argument is for the technical people only....perhaps someone among us can make a static content generation solution for everyone!
- de90 15y agoBut for the majority of people constructing the html\css to do that is a chore\"impossible". Storing it into a database and providing a simplistic word editor to write up new things is the easiest way. Storing the information in a db just allows it to happen easily.
- isocpprar 15y agoI don't think that's really irony...how is that worse then some obscure file in some obscure server somewhere? Or some obscure block of memory in some obscure cloud somewhere?
- nodemaker 15y agohaha good point but thats why I prefer the Dropbox based approach where I just create a text file and put it in my dropbox folder!