jaredwhite

jaredwhite , 1 month ago

Apparently the lessons of 2020 weren't learned. Protests like this lose public sympathy and easily become targets of far-right agitators nationwide. It's the opposite of effective advocating for the cause.

jaredwhite , 3 months ago

Looks nice! I like that idea of a Markdown page being itself a Vue SFC. Pretty clever.

jaredwhite , 3 months ago

I'm a blogger and a web developer, so IMHO:

Blog-style sites have never been as cheap to run as right now. For small-to-midsize sites run mostly as static sites, it might even be close to free.

Virtually all cost is in the human labor, and the challenge of running a sustainable business model like subscriptions off of "words" which I think are valuable but getting audiences to agree is very hard.

But we might be seeing a turnaround here. I'm hopeful!

jaredwhite , 3 months ago

I all for removing barriers to entry in this space, and if you're talking about self-hosting everything and wiring up all sorts of bits and bobs of various services together manually, yeah, it's very technical and daunting. But somebody can get started on Ghost, or WordPress.com, or Buttondown, or ConvertKit or whatever. Lots of ways to write early and often online. Buzzsprout is pretty rad for podcasting as well.

The problem usually boils down to distribution like Nilay said, not hosting. Fediverse seems like a real solution here. Honestly I've never been as successful at both blogging and podcasting as I am right now. This isn't merely a glimpse of some old-school internet nostalgia trip. It's a whole new world out there and it's actually better. 🤩

jaredwhite , 3 months ago

Oh yeah, thanks for bringing that up. And maybe we stay away from WordPress.com now with all the weird AI stuff they've been up to. 🤪