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by mro_name 6y ago
I like the approach but prefer it more consequent: every tooling breaks over time, if not statically linked. Even better: no tooling at all. Just files. Means HTML then. And self-contained e.g. per year. So you don't need to touch old
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by mro_name 6y ago
please consider indieweb.org/POSSE to not loose your digital home, when huge organisations cancel tiny ones. The big ones just cannot care about all, even if they really wanted. They had to be both onmiscient and omnipotent.
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by mro_name 6y ago
I use that heavily at https://demo.mro.name/shaarligo . The provider of the feed could/should just ship it alongside. P.S.: I prefer atom/RFC4287 for being well-defined and with e.g. sane dates.
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by mro_name 6y ago
indieweb.org/POSSE for the masses?
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by mro_name 6y ago
their take on config is unique: > Every configuration option in a program is a place where the program is too stupid to figure out for itself what the user really wants, and should be considered a failure of both the program and the prog
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by mro_name 6y ago
true, but if the 1st impression is great and the 2nd isn't worse – what else do we want?
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by mro_name 6y ago
phantastic. Design is not how something looks, it is how it works. (said Steve Jobs) Do you folks know the entertaining talk http://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm ?
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by mro_name 6y ago
ceterum censeo – in extremo, there's a single provider that won't let you down (but maybe messes up). So if you really care about that, you need to host yourself. At least a mirror. Ideally do indieweb.org/POSSE.
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by mro_name 6y ago
nicely showcaseing the benefits of self-serving.
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by mro_name 6y ago
If you join a hosted instance, please pay for it. Otherwise you remain a supplicant. If you host an instance, please take money because it as it has value.
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by mro_name 6y ago
recommended read: "A Programmable Web" https://www.morganclaypool.com/doi/pdfplus/10.2200/S00481ED1...
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by mro_name 6y ago
never used it, so no switch. But if, then matrix over signal.
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by mro_name 6y ago
lol, 'your dream job at Facebook' to me would be pulling the plug and stopping it from earning money that doesn't come from benefitting humans. Stopped reading here.
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by mro_name 6y ago
that gives that company way more credit than it IMO deserves.
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by mro_name 6y ago
prbly they're not using it to 'improve', but to e.g. worsen? That statement would be legally true. lol.
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by mro_name 6y ago
I've never done either and feel great. Who can't?
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by mro_name 6y ago
Chapeau, good move. Your honesty is impressive. IMO paying money and thus enabling humane businesses to thrive is key.
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by mro_name 6y ago
can't you just push elsewhere, be it a self-hosted location or the one of a reliable 3rd party and tell Microsoft to go f§ck themselves? I mean, what do you need github for to integrate and deploy?
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by mro_name 6y ago
sadly the page visitor's traffic not. The page loads stuff from google domains. Sigh.
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by mro_name 6y ago
I wonder what the purpose of such tools is. Archiving? Safe storage? Offering stock-photos for sale? Or just dropping an uncurated pile images into the interwebs? When publising curated photo-sets myself (<1k pics per feed), I use a stat
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by mro_name 6y ago
Impressive list of trackers on that webpage. All the usual suspects present. Not that the author wouldn't know. Author says "… they know you are reading them. …". Yes, the article is published in a way that tells them so.
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by mro_name 6y ago
No, it isn't. Was much harder in stone age, remember? Buying shared hosting isn't that hard. Disclaimer: https://mro.name/ShaarliGo#install--update
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by mro_name 6y ago
one of the most enlightening "uninteresting" articles for years. It's so far out of scope – a glimpse into a before totally unknown slice of reality. Thank you!
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by mro_name 6y ago
there seems to be no such thing as a reliable 3rd party.
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by mro_name 6y ago
indeed! My take on self-hosted services (not infrasructure, though) is layperson-friendlyness. See https://mro.name/ShaarliGo#install--update or the 5min talk I did a while ago: https://txt.mro.name/34c3 (t
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by mro_name 6y ago
I wish, I could upvote multiple times. 3rd party storage is a thing that keeps you locked in in loooong terms. Good just for the vendor and jumpstart, short-term users.
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by mro_name 6y ago
awesome. There's indeed one sole reliable supplier that really cares. Sadly sometimes not as competent or available as you'd like.
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by mro_name 6y ago
1995 Niklaus Wirth came to the conclusion software engineering is moving towards exhaustion. https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/Articles/LeanSoftware.pdf So did Dijkstra in 2000, see EWD1304. What changed since to t
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by mro_name 6y ago
> that I need to understand how Git works under the covers to truly get advantage of it and not screw up my work. Happened to me with both knife and fire. Miserable failures with terrible UIs.
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by mro_name 6y ago
going radically lightweight (no DB, no server code) sacrificing all automagic stuff and falling back to email+iframes at e.g. https://blog.mro.name/2009/08/nsdateformatter-http-header/

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