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A comment on How to Produce Green Hydrogen for $1/Kg – Terraform Industries Blog.

Re:How to Produce Green Hydrogen for $1/Kg – Terraform Indus... by cbhl on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @08:16PM (#37155598)
If you liked this post, y'all may also appreciate the Terraform Industries home page, which is entirely written in monospaced text, written in <tt> and <br> tags.

https://terraformindustries.com/

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Re:How to Produce Green Hydrogen for $1/Kg – Terraform Indus... by sva_ on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @08:20PM (#37155621)
Whats this code at the top?

    11;rgb:3838/0c0c/2a2a
Also, at the bottom:

> Why does our website look like this? At TI we believe we can change the world by displacing fossil hydrocarbon production at global scale. Like our website, our machines are simple so we can build millions of them as quickly as possible. Our website embodies our cultural commitment to allocating resources where they solve the most important problems.

Seems odd considering they have a WordPress running in the OP

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Re:How to Produce Green Hydrogen for $1/Kg – Terraform Indus... by vermilingua on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @09:02PM (#37155869)
How is that odd? They have chosen not to allocate resources towards building their own blog site, and instead have gone with what is, like it or not, the standard format for blogging. Seems exactly on-message to me.
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Re:How to Produce Green Hydrogen for $1/Kg – Terraform Indus... by TylerE on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @09:44PM (#37156150)
> Like our website, our machines are simple

> PHP/Wordpress.

Pick one.

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Re:How to Produce Green Hydrogen for $1/Kg – Terraform Indus... by maxbond on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @09:53PM (#37156199)
> Like our website, our machines are simple so we can build millions of them as quickly as possible.

WordPress seems like a reasonable choice to build a website "as quickly as possible".

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Re:How to Produce Green Hydrogen for $1/Kg – Terraform Indus... by ashald on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @10:03PM (#37156260)
Um, no. That's index.html, and they already used it for the homepage.
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Re:How to Produce Green Hydrogen for $1/Kg – Terraform Indus... by maxbond on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @10:13PM (#37156335)
To publish blog posts? No, it's really not.

I don't like WordPress either, I prefer static site generators, but if you're going for something simple and fast to setup it's a legitimate choice.

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Re:How to Produce Green Hydrogen for $1/Kg – Terraform Indus... by TylerE on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @10:35PM (#37156489)
I would never describe, with a straight face, WordPress as "simple". Nothing with that many sharp edges is.
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Re:How to Produce Green Hydrogen for $1/Kg – Terraform Indus... by maxbond on Thursday August 17, 2023 @01:10AM (#37157507)
It's not that WordPress, the technology, is simple. It's that deploying the bog standard solution, rather than investing energy into researching alternatives and developing workflows for them, is a simple and pragmatic approach.

Those sharp edges aren't really relevant anyway on a hosted service (wordpress.com) where they are buffed out for you.

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Re:How to Produce Green Hydrogen for $1/Kg – Terraform Indus... by TylerE on Thursday August 17, 2023 @03:44AM (#37158471)
It's simple until you miss some security update and get 0wned.
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Re:How to Produce Green Hydrogen for $1/Kg – Terraform Indus... by maxbond on Thursday August 17, 2023 @04:31AM (#37158779)
Again, they're using a hosted service. They aren't on the hook for security updates, wordpress.com is.

What do you propose is the simpler, more pragmatic solution to standing up a blog, compared to going to wordpress.com and registering a free tier account?

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Re:How to Produce Green Hydrogen for $1/Kg – Terraform Indus... by mickdeek86 on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @08:33PM (#37155700)
Not sure whether this is /s but as a too-many-tabs guy I would very much prefer the entire Internet was like that.
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