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<rant> This "pop" usage of zen hurts my religious sensibilities. zen is about being a lotus in a dirt-pool. I use a custom aspell dictionary for writing in Ge

<rant> This "pop" usage of zen hurts my religious sensibilities. zen is about being a lotus in a dirt-pool. I use a custom aspell dictionary for writing in German. I use a word count status bar. I use dumb vim aliases to correct "fro" to "for". I have aliases for unicode symbols. I have a single bash function that does the editing and push on save. Isn't my dumb solution better than yours, for me atleast ? WTF is so zen about full-screen ? Why aren't you solving real problems for bloggers, getting heard in a sea of me-too's, separating advertisers(propaganda) from truth. </rant> edit: Grammar based correction. I'd pay for that, having corrected some just now :)

alagu 13y ago
This "pop" usage of zen hurts my religious sensibilities. zen is about a being a lotus in a dirt-pool. I'm sorry about it. I assume the word is also used in a sense of being calm and out of clutter. Is't my dumb solution better than yours, for me atleast ? If your solution works for you, it is definitely better. If you think others also would subscribe to your solution, do post it. WTF is so zen about full-screen ? IMHO, Zen is not just about fullscreen. It is about how much minimalistic and uncluttered your experience is. Why aren't you solving real problems for bloggers, getting heard in a sea of me-too's, separating propaganda from truth. I didn't start this project to solve problems for bloggers, there are plenty of them solving it really well. It is a niche problem that I had.
- CodeMage 13y ago
  I didn't start this project to solve problems for bloggers, there are plenty of them solving it really well. It is a niche problem that I had. This. The startup-oriented audience sometimes forgets that people don't always start a project that scratches a universal itch. Sometimes you just want to make a small bit of your own life better and then share the solution with the world, just in case it helps someone else, too.
- prollyignored 13y ago
  > Zen like blog editor for your Jekyll blog, heavily inspired by Svbtle and Obvtse. What is the problem ? >> I want to look cool like Svbtle ? Give the stylesheet away for free. >> I want to use browser to edit files ? One important idea of jekyll was to use $EDITOR for blogging. What about version control ? > niche problem sigh
s_baby 13y ago
>This "pop" usage of zen hurts my religious sensibilities. zen is about being a lotus in a dirt-pool. That's not very Zen of you.
- prollyignored 13y ago
  Yeah. Read a shitty blog and know all about zen. Overload "zen" to mean cool, hip, minimal. Advertisers re-defined love as diamonds in 50 years. Maybe zen will be a styleshit in 2050.
  - s_baby 13y ago
    It's a valid observation of what Zen is compared to other Mahayana traditions. A return to the core fundamentals without all the clutter. It doesn't bother me.

alagu 13y ago

This "pop" usage of zen hurts my religious sensibilities. zen is about a being a lotus in a dirt-pool. I'm sorry about it. I assume the word is also used in a sense of being calm and out of clutter. Is't my dumb solution better than yours, for me atleast ? If your solution works for you, it is definitely better. If you think others also would subscribe to your solution, do post it. WTF is so zen about full-screen ? IMHO, Zen is not just about fullscreen. It is about how much minimalistic and uncluttered your experience is. Why aren't you solving real problems for bloggers, getting heard in a sea of me-too's, separating propaganda from truth. I didn't start this project to solve problems for bloggers, there are plenty of them solving it really well. It is a niche problem that I had.

CodeMage 13y ago
I didn't start this project to solve problems for bloggers, there are plenty of them solving it really well. It is a niche problem that I had. This. The startup-oriented audience sometimes forgets that people don't always start a project that scratches a universal itch. Sometimes you just want to make a small bit of your own life better and then share the solution with the world, just in case it helps someone else, too.
prollyignored 13y ago
> Zen like blog editor for your Jekyll blog, heavily inspired by Svbtle and Obvtse. What is the problem ? >> I want to look cool like Svbtle ? Give the stylesheet away for free. >> I want to use browser to edit files ? One important idea of jekyll was to use $EDITOR for blogging. What about version control ? > niche problem sigh

s_baby 13y ago

>This "pop" usage of zen hurts my religious sensibilities. zen is about being a lotus in a dirt-pool. That's not very Zen of you.

prollyignored 13y ago
Yeah. Read a shitty blog and know all about zen. Overload "zen" to mean cool, hip, minimal. Advertisers re-defined love as diamonds in 50 years. Maybe zen will be a styleshit in 2050.
- s_baby 13y ago
  It's a valid observation of what Zen is compared to other Mahayana traditions. A return to the core fundamentals without all the clutter. It doesn't bother me.