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Raganwald now 'blogging' on GitHub

27 points by ionfish 18y ago

jncraton 18y ago
That's an interesting form of publication. I'm more of an RSS man myself.
- ionfish 18y ago
  He does say "I will be tagging new 'posts' in del.icio.us. You can subscribe to an RSS feed that will alert you when I manually tag a new post." http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/raganwald/homoiconic http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/raganwald/homoiconic
  - vulpes 18y ago
    Issue with that is no fulltext posts. Of course you can always hack together a Y! pipe that takes the post body HTML and adds it to the feed, but that seems like a lot of hackery just to get an RSS feed going.
13ren 18y ago
Cool idea, but I've always found github a bit slow as a website (I'm in Australia).
cstejerean 18y ago
I really like the idea of using GitHub as a form of blogging about code, after all what better way to distribute code and small pieces of text describing it than a DVCS. I think I'll start doing the same with the code related posts on my blog.
- jamesbritt 18y ago
  " ... after all what better way to distribute code and small pieces of text describing it than a DVCS. " Not that what Reg is doing isn't interesting, but what does a DVCS blog buy the reader? Will I be doing a local pull from someone else when github is down (or when he just doesn't feel like writing :) )? On the other hand, the blog doesn't have support for comments, so I thought about forking the repo, adding my own comment to the text, then sending back a pull request. Presto.
  - raganwald 18y ago
    > what does a DVCS blog buy the reader? I don't know about the D part, but there are some advantages to a CVS. For example, if you cared to you could get everything for reading offline at your leisure. And while it seems cumbersome for words, it is more convenient than a blog for code that I post. In the past I put some code up on web pages, some on FTP, and some on rubyforge, all linked from my blog. Now all the code you might want to download is in one unified repository. This is an experiment, so we'll see how it goes. But I'm hoping that it will be a win for things that are code-y rather than wordy. > On the other hand, the blog doesn't have support for comments, so I thought about forking the repo, adding my own comment to the text, then sending back a pull request. Presto. I think you're onto something.
    - tel 18y ago
      Developing a homoiconic entry in a distributed fashion. How awesome
  - nex3 18y ago
    For comments, why not just use GitHub's built-in comment feature?
    - sc 18y ago
      Comments are on a per-line, per-commit basis. No aggregate per-file means that readers are less likely to follow a thread.
markessien 18y ago
On a sort of sidenote, what is raganwalds claim to fame? I see the name popping up everywhere, but I'm not really sure what he does in particular.
- petercooper 18y ago
  Learn more about the guy here: http://reginald.braythwayt.com/ http://reginald.braythwayt.com/

27 points by ionfish 18y ago

jncraton 18y ago

That's an interesting form of publication. I'm more of an RSS man myself.

ionfish 18y ago
He does say "I will be tagging new 'posts' in del.icio.us. You can subscribe to an RSS feed that will alert you when I manually tag a new post." http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/raganwald/homoiconic http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/raganwald/homoiconic
- vulpes 18y ago
  Issue with that is no fulltext posts. Of course you can always hack together a Y! pipe that takes the post body HTML and adds it to the feed, but that seems like a lot of hackery just to get an RSS feed going.

13ren 18y ago

Cool idea, but I've always found github a bit slow as a website (I'm in Australia).

cstejerean 18y ago

I really like the idea of using GitHub as a form of blogging about code, after all what better way to distribute code and small pieces of text describing it than a DVCS. I think I'll start doing the same with the code related posts on my blog.

jamesbritt 18y ago
" ... after all what better way to distribute code and small pieces of text describing it than a DVCS. " Not that what Reg is doing isn't interesting, but what does a DVCS blog buy the reader? Will I be doing a local pull from someone else when github is down (or when he just doesn't feel like writing :) )? On the other hand, the blog doesn't have support for comments, so I thought about forking the repo, adding my own comment to the text, then sending back a pull request. Presto.
- raganwald 18y ago
  > what does a DVCS blog buy the reader? I don't know about the D part, but there are some advantages to a CVS. For example, if you cared to you could get everything for reading offline at your leisure. And while it seems cumbersome for words, it is more convenient than a blog for code that I post. In the past I put some code up on web pages, some on FTP, and some on rubyforge, all linked from my blog. Now all the code you might want to download is in one unified repository. This is an experiment, so we'll see how it goes. But I'm hoping that it will be a win for things that are code-y rather than wordy. > On the other hand, the blog doesn't have support for comments, so I thought about forking the repo, adding my own comment to the text, then sending back a pull request. Presto. I think you're onto something.
  - tel 18y ago
    Developing a homoiconic entry in a distributed fashion. How awesome
- nex3 18y ago
  For comments, why not just use GitHub's built-in comment feature?
  - sc 18y ago
    Comments are on a per-line, per-commit basis. No aggregate per-file means that readers are less likely to follow a thread.

markessien 18y ago

On a sort of sidenote, what is raganwalds claim to fame? I see the name popping up everywhere, but I'm not really sure what he does in particular.

petercooper 18y ago
Learn more about the guy here: http://reginald.braythwayt.com/ http://reginald.braythwayt.com/