Advice to use substack, medium and a few others similar.

No point hosting a blog or anything of the sort, unnecessary effort in the beginning when you don't know if you'll continue.

OTOH setting up a static blog site is a great way to procrastinate on actually writing blog posts

Ouch... that actually hits a bit close to home. After having a couple of blogging homes fold out from under me, I've kicked around the idea of coding up my own blog - which usually was in whatever framework/language I was getting ramped up in. I realize I've probably ported/built something a half a dozen times in the last decade, and never bothered to take the final step to deploy it before starting the next rewrite.

I started writing my blogging engine [1] in late 1999, and spent almost the next two years trying to get it perfect, while at the same time using it for blogging (locally at first). I finally got fed up with trying to perfect the software and just went public with it. I still use it after 25 years. Granted, there hasn't been a line of code that hasn't changed in that time, but it still feels the same to me, as it still works the same from a user perspective (entries can be added via a web interface, email, file (that was true even 25 years ago) and the PUT method (added last year); the storage system hasn't changed either and is backward compatible such that the code in 2001 (when I first went public) could still work on the data today). And yes, it is still a CGI script. I saw no need to change that over the years.

[1] https://github.com/spc476/mod_blog

Take the last step! Just try not to account for it as the culmination of a decade’s work in your head.

I recently rebuilt my own blog over the course of a month or so after a decade hiatus (and wrote about it, of course[1]).

I enjoyed the process of working through all my little ideas and deploying it — and continuing to tinker on it.

1: https://duggan.ie/posts/ignoring-good-advice-and-building-my...

Hey, no need to call me out specifically like that.

Manuel maintains a list of (low-fuss) blogging platforms: https://manuelmoreale.com/blog-platforms

Why?

Many people don't like using the platforms.

They're obviously parasites.

It's not very complicated to do yourself.

Obligatory "Substack has a Nazi Problem" article: https://archive.is/uyugO

Obsidian Publish, Micro.Blog, Ghost, BearBlog, HackMD, etc. are all great places to start, with less "baggage" associated with them. I know a lot of people write on Medium as well, but the account requirements that pop-up randomly are super annoying.

Looks like NEX stand made a new version, K1 Carbon Fiber, which is lighter than og roost.

However, more expensive than it so depends if shredding those grams is worth it or not

At least we know Netflix first party content is not for anyone who wants a good watch. But rather for background noise and moving pictures.

One thing author neglected to mention is just how time comsuimg making everything types is.

Sure, primative types are fine, but anything more and it's a massive pain.

Actually, types are best when someone else already did all that work.

Why say Claude is ahead of the rest? (I don't keep up to date, only using mainstream tools in ides)

Right now I use Amazon Q to buy integrate into phpstorm and its ok. It's free so a major advantage.

Is it just terms of using their chat models?

Think of it as "taste".

People have different tastes, artists and chefs have different tastes.

Claude and ChatGPT are crafted by different people hence you'll only see these nuances once you experience it first-hand, and you might not even be able to articulate it very well, you'll just find yourself gravitated towards one thing over another.

I suggest you try both.

I think it just depends on what you're working on. In my experience, Claude usually has the edge over ChatGPT for most coding or logic problems; however, there are situations where Claude goes too deep the wrong way and ChatGPT wins out by staying more high level. Claude and ChatGPT are also "free" too, btw.

The author is of course mainly talking about the fact that the current Claude models are one of the best for programming. Only o1 can rival 3.5 Sonnet, but o1 is way more expensive and takes more time to run.

I think if you only use node, then just nvm is fine. This is more for multi language ppl?

I've rejected most of my pain into a black hole, but as the person who wrote the Ansible scripts to bring up dev machines, I had nothing but loathing for nvm. It someone always managed to find bold new ways to misbehave & crud up. It was incredibly unpleasant to work with.

Someone else suggested we switch to asdf & what a rapid & happy migration that was. Good riddance nvm.

nvm is unbearably slow, this is really fast. 200 to 300ms latency whenever you open a terminal is noticible and I was getting far more than that sometimes, up to 1sec. Its really really bad.

Article is more like, low code is only good for the most simple of simple apps. And this MUST NEVER CHANGE, the second it changes, or isn't how the low code platform is designed for. Basically it's a massive and near impossible hack job.

It'd be cool if someone reviewed all the 2024 AR glasses.

Each one is quite pricey, so trying them all for the best one isn't a solid option.

uploadvr.com do a decent job of reviewing most kit, IME. Here's the RayNeo X2 review:

https://www.uploadvr.com/rayneo-x2-standalone-ar-glasses-rev...

Best practices for a Google scale company, where most best practices come from, is NOT the best practice for everyone else.

As someone at Google, I hardly believe they deserve to be used at Google. We have like 20% the efficiency we could have if we were more selective about procedure.

Does Gemini have a higher chance of these off answers? Or is it more chatgpt has already been discovered so it's not reported so.

That's surprising, considering Gemeni keeps refusing to do things I told it to (like try to decode a string) while ChatGPT just does it if I ask it once. So I thought Google censor Gemini more.