jckzlg

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by jckzlg 6y ago
In this case the mountain is web-hosted git repos? This particular mountain already has at least 3 ski lifts you might have heard of called GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket.
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by jckzlg 6y ago
When I say “matter” I’m not being normative, I’m saying that this particular tool’s value add has nothing to do with its discoverability on the World Wide Web. Sourcehut’s website is a signpost not an advertisement. The set of users who are
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by jckzlg 6y ago
You misunderstand my point, which is that only “genuine attempts” matter in this particular case. Sourcehut is clearly working to stay away from the lightspeed, attention-shaping, zillions of fundamentally distracted users zeitgeist. You’re
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by jckzlg 6y ago
The sourcehut landing page has ~300 words on it. Those words could be literally arranged in a giant spiral and still not require 3-4 genuine attempts to learn what sourcehut does. This comment is a total caricature of the actual and tangi
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by jckzlg 6y ago
I honestly don't understand this comment, what is wrong with reading it from top to bottom? The very top of the landing page has a list of high-level reasons to use sourcehut, and then the rest of the landing page is just a detailed li
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by jckzlg 6y ago
There's some pretty low-hanging fruit on sourcehut's landing page (like vertical spacing) but it really does take 5 seconds to learn why to use sourcehut. It's right at the top with a bold header that says "welcome to so
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by jckzlg 6y ago
I'm late to the party but I just stumbled on something Ursula K. Le Guin said that I think is the perfect answer: "When action becomes unprofitable, gather information. When gathering information becomes unprofitable, sleep."
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by jckzlg 6y ago
I have struggled with similar issues for years. I have a kinda weird take on the topic, but I think it might be helpful. I think the “persistence paradigm” we’re living through causes these sort of psychological short circuits where we forg
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by jckzlg 6y ago
The issue here in my opinion is not that someone would “run apps in the cloud from your editor”, it’s that a software engineer would need or want an entire SaaS product for such a trivial task.
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by jckzlg 6y ago
I almost entirely agree, and I think the word "favor" wasn't the best choice. My opinion is that many developers will often consult Google or Stack Overflow before consulting a manpage or documentation or will only briefly
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by jckzlg 6y ago
> In general this is against our principles. We prefer to teach people how to use powerful tools rather than make less powerful tools that are easier to use. I agree deeply with the ethos this statement represents. It's hard for me