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Re:Ghost Kitchens Are Dying. Here's the $15B Lesson Every Restaurateur... on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @03:09AM (#45259008)
So you can talk shit with zero consequences? How wonderful for you, and how terrible for everyone around you.
Re:ChatGPT Hacks on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @01:52AM (#36858463)
As someone who actually writes haiku, I hate the "write a haiku" ChatGPT example as it produces these stilted, lifeless eighth grade poems that people nevertheless copy-paste into their work.

Tell HN: In my entire life, I have never enjoyed a scrolljacking website

Posted by swidi on Friday June 30, 2023 @04:47PM
from the self-post dept.

Not once.I don't care how hard you worked on it, I don't care how many web technologies you abused to get it working, I don't care how many hits or views or conversions or whatchamacallits it got for you.If I visit your website and I see a scrolljacking, window-breaking, bandwidth hogging accessibility nightmare, I'm either going to force it to open in Safari Reader or leave entirely.No content...

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Re:Scientists discover why aspirin works so well on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @02:25AM (#35353367)
Yes, and everybody here thinks you're a brave little boy. Have a lollipop.
Re:Why am I not terrified of AI? on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @04:53AM (#35053513)
schlorb schlorb schlorb schlorb schlorb
Re:Why am I not terrified of AI? on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @12:39AM (#35051979)
Why is it that in the gutter of every HN post there's some schlorby shlub desperately trying to seem cool?
Re:Ask HN: Would you want to buy direct, fractional ownership of a sol... on Thursday December 01, 2022 @12:31AM (#33812724)
Hell no. I can smell the scam from here.
Re:Scaling Mastodon in the Face of an Exodus on Friday November 11, 2022 @03:34PM (#33566423)
Those dozen different services are servers, that you chose from.
Re:Nicheless is a micro-blogging platform for raw, unfiltered thoughts on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @02:45AM (#33417795)
I say this every time one of these pops up: Just do it yourself. Just get a $5 Linode or a Cloudflare account, make a Hugo/Pelican/whatever site and go.

These niche microblogging sites are so small and insignificant that you can never ever trust them to survive (or even persist). Just do it yourself from the very beginning and you'll have a much better time.

Re:Show HN: Sonse, a note-taking CLI for plaintext enthusiasts on Saturday May 07, 2022 @01:08AM (#31292304)
True, but (a) it's a fun project, and (b) I wanted something just for my notes, so I can add note-specific commands and generally treat my notes directory as a database I can use Sonse to work with.

Ask HN: What's the modern alternative to WordPress for a non-technical weblog?

Posted by swidi on Friday April 29, 2022 @08:17PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Wordpress seeems to be commonly derided here, so my question is this: what software would you use for the following scenario:- A frequently-updated weblog with images for each post.- A non-technical user who can't or won't deal with a static generator workflow.- Themes that are customisable in a GUI and not by editing raw CSS.Any help welcome, thanks.

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Re:Show HN: A note-taking CLI for zipfile enthusiasts on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @04:28AM (#31094190)
Thanks, I'll figure out some screenshots. The list command would display all notes, but maybe I could add some kind of pagination feature. If you have specific ideas, consider adding them to the tracker! [1]

[1]: https://github.com/rattlerake/sonse/issues

Re:Ask HN: Does a static site need anything more than a simple VM runn... on Thursday April 14, 2022 @11:51PM (#31036474)
I prefer Mercurial, and as a hobbyist I can afford to stay with it. I know Git has GitHub and all the connectivity of that, but I just truly dislike Git.
Re:Ask HN: Does a static site need anything more than a simple VM runn... on Thursday April 14, 2022 @11:49PM (#31036464)
This is my exact method. Render Markdown into HTML, rsync up to the Caddy server.
Re:Ask HN: Does a static site need anything more than a simple VM runn... on Thursday April 14, 2022 @11:17PM (#31036323)
Free services never truly are, and I don't want to build something on a foundation I don't pay for. Corporate generosity always runs out eventually.
Re:Ask HN: Does a static site need anything more than a simple VM runn... on Thursday April 14, 2022 @11:12PM (#31036292)
How are any of these simpler than "Get VM, install server, rsync files"? Why is the solution always "sign up for a proprietary service that might not exist next year and rig up a bunch of fragile webhooks"?

Also, I don't use Git or Github.

Ask HN: Does a static site need anything more than a simple VM running a server?

Posted by swidi on Thursday April 14, 2022 @09:00PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I'm an amateur blogger and programmer, running a custom-made static site on a Linode VM with Caddy [1]. I don't use containers or CDNs or anything fancy; my site generator just spits HTML into a folder and I rsync it to the server.Do I need anything more than this? Is there some modern technology that is demonstrably better than my workflow? I worry I've been left behind, but I also find...

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