Moving
Howdy all,
I think I'm pretty much going to move to http://brett-zamir.me for my own website, and http://blog.brett-zamir.me for my blog. I like the full control of not being dependent on any commercial site which may try to charge me later, add advertisements I don't want, etc. I'm not complaining about anything now (Blogspot is quite cool for the control it offers I think), but as I experienced with Yahoo where I used my email frequently enough that when I want to get access to my mails in a manner I want, I have to pay for their POP access. Not cool. So, having full control over my data (beyond the spammers in this world operating with impunity) is a good thing. I also have a smaller chance of having my personal site get blocked now that I am living in a country which will block a whole large website if a few pages on the article offend it. There's strength in diversity...
I think I'm pretty much going to move to http://brett-zamir.me for my own website, and http://blog.brett-zamir.me for my blog. I like the full control of not being dependent on any commercial site which may try to charge me later, add advertisements I don't want, etc. I'm not complaining about anything now (Blogspot is quite cool for the control it offers I think), but as I experienced with Yahoo where I used my email frequently enough that when I want to get access to my mails in a manner I want, I have to pay for their POP access. Not cool. So, having full control over my data (beyond the spammers in this world operating with impunity) is a good thing. I also have a smaller chance of having my personal site get blocked now that I am living in a country which will block a whole large website if a few pages on the article offend it. There's strength in diversity...
posted by Brett at
7:33 AM
3 Comments:
Good Stuff Brett.
I'd recommend anything that let's you write posts as markdown in your favourite code-editor, version controlled under git.
Working that way is so much more natural to us coders than wrestling with wysiwyg editors only to see your layout messed up after another change.
I can recommend Jekyll and Octopress (based on Jekyll, I use this one myself as it's aimed at programmers and contains some more features for us. but the community is a bit smaller and some may feel it's more bloated than Jekyll)
Anyway, good to see you blogging!
Best wishes,
Kevin
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kvz, at Thursday, 30 May, 2013
Damn, this popped up in my RSS reader for some reason. Only now I see it was from 2009.
Lordy lord.
But maybe it's time to pick things uo again? Would be cool to read from you.
Cheers!
Kev
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kvz, at Thursday, 30 May, 2013
Thanks, Kev! I may take a look, as I currently have some time freeing up.
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Brett, at Thursday, 30 May, 2013
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