derekzhouzhen

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by derekzhouzhen 3y ago
Hiding the original URL and copying the content verbatim could get you in trouble.
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by derekzhouzhen 3y ago
Because I don't want or can't use my shitty corporate issued laptop to access my personal projects from work.
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
Is it reading the web page, parsing it into an AST, sanitizing the AST, then writing it out? I have a similar function on my site: https://roastidio.us There are 2 caveats: * There are broken HTML files that somehow still work w
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
You can do CGI in C, but isn't it defeating the biggest advantage which is simplicity?
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
For CGI you need a interpreted language that start up fast. Last I checked Perl5 is still the king. Writing CGI scripts with node.js is theoretically possible but you are in for a lot of pain.
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
Because we can't? I've seen many that tried to be fancy and made it even worse. It is better to be utilitarian than ugly.
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
You can try the RSS reader made by me: https://airss.roastidio.us web only, no login, open source. I believe it addresses some of the pain points you cited.
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
A post is not supposed to mutate. Supposed you have a post I liked and replied then you changed it completely; my reply would be totally out of context.
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
Looks nice. How do you present the content for users to read? Do you use a terminal based HTML browser, or convert the content to plain text and present the plain text?
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
Offline is nice in theory, but not as useful in reality. For solo projects, I will skip all the fancy tools and just use org-mode (emacs), which is offline. For a company project, most people don't get to decide which tool to use. Besi
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
You are mixing authenticity and uniqueness. The stuff you blog about doesn't need to be unique; it only needs to be authentic.
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
Looking good. however, it seems like main content are printed through javascript, there is no text in the static html. I wonder the rationale behind this; it is not like you want to make a paywall.
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
Without the direct flag dd is pretty pointless. However, with the direct flag, you do un-bufferred I/O with precisely controlled block size. It the fastest way to ensure the data really go where you want it to go, in the fashion you li
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
The biggest problem of Gmail is what they have that we have, it is what they let people have. Ever have a fight with Gmail's spam filter?
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
Because it is not much simpler than just git + the editor of your choice for developers, and it is still harder to use than Wordpress for non-developers.
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
It is chat and nothing like a forum. There are several similar efforts recently; such as twist.com, geneva.com, what does Babble do differently?
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
I fail to see why should I prefer this over JSON. Dynamically typed languages prefer plain hash tables. Static typed languages need to parse and validate input data anyway, so the lack of type of JSON is not a hindrance. Maybe for communica
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
I concur that some of the tier0 social login providers are not very developer friendly. The more dev friendly and user friendly social logins are such as GitHub or Discord. They have straight forward processes and a clear management console
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
This looks like a wrapper around several popular social login. While it is convenient, I fail to see how it is decentralized. If anything, it just add another single point of failure, so it is more centralized? As a SaaS vendor, I likely al
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
svbtle costs $7 per month and $75 per year. And it has stayed in business for years. I use an SSG and host my blog on vercel for free but for someone who don't want to deal with software and don't want the surveillance of a social
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
> This sounds like a static site generator. This is a static site generator running inside a web application. It is the worse of both worlds: You need to maintain a server and yet you can't make use of the server to do interesting t
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
What innovation do you have to make a moderator's job easier? I ask because I believe this is the hardest part of a forum software; The one thing that make or break a community is whether there is timely and fair moderation so contents
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
I understand the nostalgia but a website that appease a very broad audience yet cannot come up a viable business plan is doom to fail. Ok there is wikipedia but who else?
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
I only have 2 suggestions for medium: * when a non-subscriber click a premium link, don't show the whole content and let the user choose whether to spend the allowance on this article after seeing a snippet. * Keep an eye on your javas
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
Now that Substack is on the offense they are trying to branch into the social network market. Time will tell how successful they can be. Or there will be another SaaS encroach into their stronghold should Substack become too social-ly and a
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
They aim at different markets. Substack is for writers that already have a following, it is more like a SaaS. Medium is for upstarts trying to gain a following through the platform, it is more like a social network.
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
> but why not also have a textual link or icon pointing to your feed!? Sure. I was only providing my perspective, the perspective of a RSS feed aggregator writer. To me, automatic discovery is more important than an icon. I am not sure y
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
His homepage has a `link rel="alternate"` meta and that's all that matters. Original link should be preserved, but I disagree with you on the moral of appending '&rss_ref=heyhomepage.com' to the links. It is sti
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
Been there, done that. A lot of feeds, I means 99%+ have subtle bugs in the meta data that can be easily fixed and make feed reader writer's life easier and broaden your readership. There are rss validators, please make use of them. I
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
Is there a web version?

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