dmje

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by dmje 3y ago
Search totally didn’t kill bookmarks. Even good search didn’t kill bookmarks - and now we’ve got shit search with endless SEO rubbish clogging up results. I use raindrop.io - it’s amazing, does archiving of original page to cater for link r
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by dmje 3y ago
It's really nice (as a very long term user - and lover! - of Ableton) to hear that they're a great company as well as a company that makes great software. This makes me happy. Thanks for posting :-)
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by dmje 3y ago
The point I’m making is that we should choose tech that is relevant to the job in hand, not just because it’s the latest cool thing. When I first started doing web stuff, ColdFusion, Perl, Flash and WAP were The Big Things at the time. Not
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by dmje 3y ago
…I’ll just leave this [0] here. A perfect example which just popped up in my feed list of “simple but does this job” tech. No js, no database, a $10 a month vps. [0] https://alexcabal.com/posts/standard-ebooks-and-class
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by dmje 3y ago
Is a blog a blog when it hasn’t got comments, feeds, categories, tags? I’d say not. So: sure, if your cdn and static files can do all of those then yeh. But it can’t.
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by dmje 3y ago
It’s funny, I see it as entirely the other way round. I see many on HN as being sort of “automatically negative” about Wordpress and php and unable to see that there are actually some times when they’re totally the right tools for the job.
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by dmje 3y ago
Shallow because...? I was making a point that the best tool for the job can sometimes be the one which is widely used, hugely supported, cheap to host, well understood - it may not be the trendy choice, but "trendy" is not (in my
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by dmje 3y ago
Failing to understand what "Wordpress and php are negative value skills" even means. I'm pretty happy with the work I get paid for ;-)
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by dmje 3y ago
Again, pretty hilarious given how full featured and fast PHP is nowadays, but ok... I'm also gonna make a little private bet that PHP will outlast a fair amount of the currently trendy tooling...
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by dmje 3y ago
Yeh, I get that - but then at the same time we have a web developers blog here with no RSS / feeds as far as I can see, no comments, no API, no OG tags - all the things one would expect from a blog. These seem to me a strange set of th
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by dmje 3y ago
I mean, write a simple plugin that enables you to embed these using a shortcode, if there isn't an existing plugin that does it already? WordPress is insanely customisable - it's "just php". And sure, maybe his new skill
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by dmje 3y ago
Sorry to be argumentative, but it just isn't. It's PHP, and you probably don't need to code anything at all. You also don't need many plugins. Incompatibility issues and vulnerabilities just aren't a thing - as long
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by dmje 3y ago
Again, because I'm boring like that: it's pretty hilarious to me that anyone would choose to make a new blog and not just use WordPress, especially when their stated aim contains this: "...that makes it as easy as possible to
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by dmje 3y ago
Interesting! I feel very emotional and tender when I come back - definitely have to ease back into normal life!
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by dmje 3y ago
As a possible “third way” I’d recommend people try a silent retreat. You’re surrounded by people, and yet alone. And - in relation to the way you feel about those individuals around you - as brought up by this article - it’s a deeply profou
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by dmje 3y ago
I'm a sufferer, possibly for the last 2 years or so. I'm so sure (soooo sure) that this is physical - albeit with some psychosomatic elements to it. As of right now I am reasonably certain that I have some kind of eustachian tube
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by dmje 3y ago
Love this, reminded me of the Yamaha MT100 I had as a teen - well before I got into using my first DAW. The name of that DAW I've never been able to remember - it was on a Mac Classic... I've noticed two things when it comes to in
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by dmje 3y ago
I think so, personally. I wanted the means to see the whole hierarchy (ie book or chapter or both) and be able to move between that view and the editing view easily. Scrivener's tools do this really nicely.
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by dmje 3y ago
I was commissioned to write a book in 2011 - what worked for me given a word count and a deadline was a very simple “I’ll write daily” spreadsheet. I simply divided words remaining by days remaining which gave me a daily target. Main aim wa
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by dmje 3y ago
I wrote a book back in 2011 in Scrivener, and loved the software for this. I didn’t use about 90% of it but still, it was hugely helpful for structuring a long and complex document of 60k+ words. You need to be able to shuffle chapters arou
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by dmje 3y ago
Interesting and useful reply, thanks - and sorry for being rude about you being an AI :-)
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by dmje 3y ago
The fact that it feels like it's written by an AI aside (because you know, someone obviously wanted to spend time on a beach instead) - there is an endless cadence to the "entrepreneur, money and life" article of which this i
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by dmje 3y ago
Recommend pi [0] on iOS or iPad if you want to try really pretty convincing conversational voice AI. [0] https://pi.ai/
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by dmje 3y ago
Agree. And the hilarity of selling this as "being in the moment"... Urgh.
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by dmje 3y ago
No. It was literally a complete inability to understand. I'm of the age that I'm not "permanently online" and my real f2f friendships are everything to me. I was just expressing my astonishment that this could be another
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by dmje 3y ago
Wow. I mean. Wow.
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by dmje 3y ago
If you can't survive a weekend, or even a week, or a month - without your phone - you badly need to take a look at how you're living your life. IMO. It's a damn beautiful world out here. Silence and space are wonderful. Lack
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by dmje 3y ago
Yes! I find JSON so, so hard to read compared to XML. I thought I was the only one :-)
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by dmje 3y ago
How does this differ from ntfy or pushover?
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by dmje 3y ago
Same. Loved Toubkal, loved the people, loved Marrakech. So sad to see this.

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