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by bgrohman 7y ago
I’ve been using DuckDuckGo for years now. It’s great. I probably use the !g fallback to Google a few times a year.
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by bgrohman 8y ago
I have a Dell XPS 15 running Pop!_OS, and it’s great[1]. No issues. It’s a much better experience compared to setting up Kubuntu[2]. [1] http://bryangrohman.com/pop-os-dell-xps-15/ [2] http://bryangrohman.co
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by bgrohman 9y ago
I switched to FastMail about 6 months ago, and I like it. I actually like FastMail’s webapp more than Gmail’s. There aren’t any features from Gmail that I miss, and FastMail offers a very easy option to migrate your emails from Gmail.
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by bgrohman 9y ago
Writing your own can be a good way to learn a new language as well as a good introduction to html/css if you’re new to it. Also, if you write it yourself (again, for _simple_ use cases), it’ll do exactly what you need and no more. Evid
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by bgrohman 9y ago
Yes, indeed. My original thought was more along the lines of why there are so many generators published to solve the same problem when it’s easy to create your own custom generator as needed. Add one more step - publish your custom generato
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by bgrohman 9y ago
Yeah, you’re right - I forgot about Dreamweaver and similar tools. I do think that adding wysiwyg UIs to a generator puts it in a slightly different class than the type of generator posted here, but your point is a good one. Adding a UI to
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by bgrohman 9y ago
Yep, thanks, I realized that eventually :)
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by bgrohman 9y ago
Thanks for the thoughtful reply.
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by bgrohman 9y ago
It makes sense that the static site generators with lots of bells an whistles are harder to get right, especially if they’re trying to build an ecosystem with plugins and themes where others can contribute. I’m considering the _simple_ gene
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by bgrohman 9y ago
Gotcha, makes sense. My question seems a little short-sighted in retrospect :)
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by bgrohman 9y ago
Hi, thanks, that all makes sense. I was asking why there are so many static site generators and why you wouldn’t just create a custom static site generator yourself, not why you would use one. I use one myself. Based on some of the other re
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by bgrohman 9y ago
Gotcha, that makes sense. I hadn’t considered programmers who don’t know html/css and don’t care to learn it.
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by bgrohman 9y ago
Cool, thanks for the reply. Good to know you have plenty of options.
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by bgrohman 9y ago
It looks nice, but I guess I still[1] don’t understand the proliferation of simple static site generators. It’s pretty easy (and fun!) to build your own that works exactly as you want it to. And I don’t think a static site generator is suit
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Matthew Butterick on Net Neutrality(tinyletter.com)
6 points by bgrohman 9y ago|2 comments
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by bgrohman 9y ago
I'm using vim with text files already, and Pandoc for converting markdown into other formats as needed. Hard to imagine paying $30 for a worse editing experience that only works on Mac. Maybe I'm not representative of the target m
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by bgrohman 9y ago
Hmm, that’s odd. In my experience, FastMail’s web app is much faster than Gmail. I also tend to like that the FastMail web app is simple in comparison to Gmail - fewer things to slow it down or break, and few things for me to ignore :)
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by bgrohman 9y ago
I switched to FastMail from Gmail a few months ago and haven’t had any issues with spam.
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The politics of the Linux desktop(opensource.com)
3 points by bgrohman 9y ago|1 comments
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by bgrohman 9y ago
"It's worth noting that in my testing, GNOME uses slightly more RAM and CPU than Unity on the same hardware doing the same things. The increase is only about 10 percent more on the RAM, and, let's face it, neither of them are
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by bgrohman 9y ago
Take a look at the Glowstone configuration docs here: https://github.com/GlowstoneMC/Glowstone/wiki/Configuration-... It says for the "allow-flight" option that the default is "false" and
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When Making Books Was as Much of an Art as Writing Them(npr.org)
13 points by bgrohman 9y ago|1 comments
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by bgrohman 9y ago
I just tried setting up a Glowstone server on a Linode instance. It was a very quick experience. However, I ended up switching to the official Minecraft server jar provided by Mojang when I realized that Glowstone doesn't support the &
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by bgrohman 9y ago
I switched from LastPass to KeePassXC, and I like that I don't have a browser extension anymore. It seems like many of the security vulnerabilities discovered in LastPass were in the browser extension. Plus, the stand-alone app is nice
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by bgrohman 9y ago
I use PocketCasts on iOS and web. If you both switch to a platform-agnostic option like that, then sharing should be easier.
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Bruce Schneier Congressional Testimony on Equifax Breach(schneier.com)
2 points by bgrohman 9y ago|0 comments
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by bgrohman 9y ago
Cool, thanks for the recommendations. I've tried ctrlp for fuzzy finding, and it works ok. Might give FZF a try though.
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by bgrohman 9y ago
Cool, I haven't used that one. I'm sure it's great coming from Tim Pope. Mine's working fine for me at the moment, though.
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by bgrohman 9y ago
I'm surprised the author didn't mention vim's sessions feature. The ability to close the editor/IDE and pick up right where you left off can save a lot of time when working with multiple large projects. It's easy en
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by bgrohman 9y ago
"NERDTree satisfies this need of mine, replacing vim’s built-in netrw file navigator with a nicer-looking, less buggy, more fully featured alternative." Wait, what's wrong with the built-in netrw? I actually started with NERD

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