Re:On Tolerating Complexity
by rustybolt on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @02:08AM
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It's not as bad when you keep it as simple as possible. The first version of the 'generator' for my blog (shameless plug: rubenvannieuwpoort.nl) was written in one or two days. It's just a couple of bash scripts (and one Python script), really (see https://github.com/rubenvannieuwpoort/static-site-generator). Now I haven't wrote a lot since, but that has to do more with perfectionism and being busy).
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It's ok, "Writing essays doesn't have to mean publishing them."
Re:On Tolerating Complexity
by AstralStorm on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @02:48AM
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However, publishing is not free, you pay in money, your ownership of the content or your viewer's privacy.
That's if the publisher is actually decent and their mechanisms work.
I was addressing the perfectionism - which paul graham's article talks about in a counter intuitive way (sort of "we will not serve a wine before it's time")
As to "paying" I was trying to think of venues where you can publish without compromising.
I think the answer might be something like a $5/mo droplet or something on a cloud service.
There are nice venues to publish free, like here on hn, but you lose control of your work - for example, it could be taken down, it could be heckled, etc...