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by colinmcd 6y ago
I like that idea too. Though it definitely may lead to some troubling scenarios where bad actors try to get their modules listed as dependencies of popular projects to piggyback on their downloads. You could alleviate this by not funding de
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by colinmcd 6y ago
You don't get paid unless someone adds you to their sponsor pool. If no one knows about your thing, you don't get paid. Am I misunderstanding your question?
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by colinmcd 6y ago
You seem to be reacting against the term "privileged" in a way I didn't intend. I don't mean to say that they have some unfair advantage. They just have a more foundational role in the tech stack of the products built on
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by colinmcd 6y ago
One of the projects I had in mind when writing this post is the "color" module on npm. It's a fantastic utility for reading in colors in different formats (hex, decimal, CMYK), applying transformations, and getting a modified
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by colinmcd 6y ago
You also have to factor in the opening-line hyperbole phenomenon!
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by colinmcd 6y ago
This is something else I've been thinking about! Caleb Porzio's post from last month describes a Patreon-style "insider access" service built on top of GitHub Sponsors. I think it's a phenomenal idea. Ideally GitHu
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by colinmcd 6y ago
That page argues (convincingly!) that open source is growing faster and faster in terms of contributors, projects, commits, etc. This is definitely the case, despite the fact that the funding problem is unsolved. But who knows how much fast
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A new funding model for open source(vriad.com)
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by colinmcd 6y ago
OP here. I'd love to see something like this exist. Let me know if it does already, or if someone is trying, and I'll link it below. EDIT: This model is used by Flattr [0]. Unfortunately Flattr isn't targeted at open-source s
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A new funding model for open source software(vriad.com)
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Designing a better GitHub Sponsors(vriad.com)
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What GitHub Sponsors isn’t(vriad.com)
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by colinmcd 6y ago
That was Jessi Combs, Scottie's still around.
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You probably shouldn't use @emotion/core(vriad.com)
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Ask HN: Posting to a personal blog vs submitting guest posts?
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by colinmcd 6y ago
"Hard" is the wrong term. But I'm certainly not alone in being rusty on this stuff. Uncontrolled components, form actions, imperatively reading all the <input> values, `x-www-form-urlencoded` data, etc. If you use this
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by colinmcd 6y ago
Thanks for the measured response here. I address the fact that the site, as it currently exists, doesn't need any of this currently. I tried to be clear in my "criteria list" that I'm designing for power and flexibility;
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by colinmcd 6y ago
Post isn't a satire, the title is tongue-in-cheek (and a huge miscalculation).
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by colinmcd 6y ago
True. I briefly mentioned Headless CMSs but didn't really give them the time of day. I didn't want to do anything that required a server/db/CMS, but I didn't do a good job of justifying that decision. I do think the
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by colinmcd 6y ago
Thanks John! Not discouraged (or surprised) by the reaction. I think using the word "ideal" in the title was a fatal mistake - lesson learned :)
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by colinmcd 6y ago
What do you mean exactly? Are you referring to adding a comments section to my blog? I didn't even consider doing that, but if you want that then Wordpress makes a lot of sense.
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by colinmcd 6y ago
It's all I've ever known. More concretely: I try to address that in my list of criteria section under "React + TypeScript". I couldn't shake the feeling that doing anything complex in the future was going to be even
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by colinmcd 6y ago
All my dependency versions are pinned, and I'm not using any global CLIs that may change under me. Valid concern though if you don't take precautions.
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by colinmcd 6y ago
I recommend reading through some of my criteria (ability to use npm modules, TypeScript React components, etc). May be possible with Wordpress (haven't tried it) but sounds like an uphill battle.
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by colinmcd 6y ago
Haven't been banned from GitHub yet but the "shunned by community" is coming together nicely. Also, to be fair, it's my second post.
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by colinmcd 6y ago
Thanks Dan :) NetlifyCMS looks really cool. It definitely took me a while to come around to writing MD directly (basically until I discovered VSCode's hot-reloading Preview), but I understand the appeal of a rich editor. I'd defin
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by colinmcd 6y ago
I appreciate it! Too late to edit the title unfortunately (I posted this right before going to bed...bad move).
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by colinmcd 6y ago
You lost me at "plugins" I'm afraid. I looked into ways to mix in React + TypeScript into both Hugo and Jekyll and it just seemed like an uphill battle. Based on my criteria (which I'm realizing aren't very popular
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by colinmcd 6y ago
One of my goals is to maintain that same authoring simplicity. All I need to do is create a new `.md` file in the right directory and a new blog post is created - just like you. I just don't want to fight an uphill battle every time I
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by colinmcd 6y ago
I did, but I wasn't satisfied with that option. I'd like the ability to embed arbitrary React+JSX into my Markdown, something which can theoretically be done (i.e. with the Hugo Babel plugin). But then I immediately realized I wou

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