Re:Have a personal web site
by FerretFred on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @09:03AM
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> It's also communicating things to yourself.
Yeah! And remember to back it up. I had a blog in the early days when it was all new, and bitterly regret not backing it up properly - 5 years of content gone.
I handle my websites in a way that provide automatic backups -- I keep complete mirrors on my own machines that are already part of a backup regime. I make changes to the mirrors, and then upload the changes from there to the public sites.
That way, I always have an offline copy without having to remember to make one specifically.
Have you checked archive.org for a backup? It's saved me a few times.
Re:Have a personal web site
by FerretFred on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @07:15AM
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No, I wrote the blog software myself and all the content was stored in a MySQL database on my rented host. I thought I'd backed it up, but hadn't. It's the usual story of "it isn't a backup until you've tested it".
Re:Have a personal web site
by brazzledazzle on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @12:02PM
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This fits my experience as well. It’s always interesting to see what assumptions or unspecific placeholders I made that are fleshed out when actually writing.
To pick a bit, your *Breaking Bad" reference occurs well into the series, not at the start. It opens with his diagnosis, which sets everything else in motion.
Re:Have a personal web site
by Carpetsmoker on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @04:17AM
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It's one of the first episodes, like the third or something? In the context of 62 episodes in total, I would consider that to be "at the start".
That said, it's needless verbiage, and removing "at the start" made the paragraph better.
I think the greatest value in writing things down is to order and articulate your own thoughts. Certainly in my own case, I never finish a large chunk of articles I start to write simply because during the research I find out I was wrong, or that things are more complex than I thought and I'm no longer sure I'm right.
See my personal website for a post I wrote about that :-) https://arp242.net/weblog/why-write.html
An additional reason is that publishing your thoughts also means people can point out flaws or points you hadn't considered. Maintaining a website is just one way of doing that of course (commenting here is another), but I find it's a pretty effective way.