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mighmi commented on Building Bluesky comments for my blog   natalie.sh/posts/bluesky-... · Posted by u/g0xA52A2A
susam · 23 days ago
Interesting article! I always enjoy reading how people build and maintain their independent personal websites. This post starts with the "Comment System Problem" and mentions four possible solutions, but I think there's a fifth that has worked well for me.

After spending too much time fiddling with third-party comment systems, I ended up building my own [1]. It's pretty barebones, just does what I need, and nothing more.

Each comment is written to a text file for manual review, so I don't have to worry about spam, cross-site scripting, or irrelevant comments. I usually check them on weekends and add them to my blog.

Comments are stored as plain HTML files, and my static site generator [2] builds the site along with the comment pages [3]. So in a way, it's also a static comment pages generator.

This setup doesn't meet the five attributes (no infra, rich content, real identity, etc.) in the second section of the article, so it wouldn't suit the author's needs, but it has worked quite well for me. I've been using it for at least four years (perhaps much longer, since my old PHP website did something similar), and I've been quite happy with it.

[1] https://github.com/susam/susam.net/blob/main/form.lisp

[2] https://github.com/susam/susam.net/blob/main/site.lisp

[3] https://susam.net/comments/

mighmi · 23 days ago
Taking comments via a (n email) form, which you then manually add under the article's html/markdown is nice.
mighmi commented on Ditching GitHub (2024)   tomscii.sig7.se/2024/01/D... · Posted by u/lr0
dbg31415 · 23 days ago
Interesting. Seems both are now acceptable.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/bury-the-lede-versu...

mighmi · 23 days ago
The etymology is:

> A deliberate misspelling of lead, originally used in instructions given to printers to indicate which paragraphs constitute the lede, intended to avoid confusion with the word lead which may actually appear in the text of an article. Compare dek (“subhead”) (modified from deck) and hed (“headline”) (from head).

Further:

> In 1990, the American author and journalist William Safire (1929–2009) was still able to say: “You will not find this spelling in dictionaries; it is still an insiders' variant, steadily growing in frequency of use. […] Will lede break out of its insider status and find its way into general use? […] To suggest this is becoming standard would be misledeing […] But it has earned its place as a variant spelling, soon to overtake the original spelling for the beginning of a news article."

mighmi commented on Project Hyperion: Interstellar ship design competition   projecthyperion.org... · Posted by u/codeulike
munificent · 23 days ago
I am increasingly certain that culture is by far the biggest limiting factor when it comes to large-scale problem solving now and in the future.

We couldn't even reliably get people to put a piece of fabric over their face to stop killing their own relatives. Even if we could build a generation ship, it would turn into an Event Horizon hellscape if we don't figure out better cultural, communication, and sociological tools to enable us to get along and work together effectively.

mighmi · 23 days ago
Sweden did not have a mask mandate and did very well.
mighmi commented on My Ideal Array Language   ashermancinelli.com/csblo... · Posted by u/bobajeff
npalli · 25 days ago
Strange to read this article and find no mention of Julia (but APL, Mojo, MLIR BQN etc.. which are not exactly widely used languages). It checks many of the boxes

User-Extensible Rank Polymorphism is just beautiful with the broadcast dot syntax. I don't think any other language has this clean and flexible implementation.

Others -- GPU programing, parallelism, etc. are pretty good with Julia. Real shame it hasn't taken off.

mighmi · 25 days ago
Julia may be cool, but it's not an array language in the tradition of APL.
mighmi commented on Is “The Phoenician Scheme” Wes Anderson's Most Emotional Film?   newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/prismatic
mighmi · 3 months ago
Because it's in the middle of the night.
mighmi commented on RSC for Lisp Developers   overreacted.io/rsc-for-li... · Posted by u/bundie
Zak · 3 months ago
I wonder what things would look like today if Netscape had stuck with its first idea of embedding Scheme instead of creating Javascript.
mighmi · 3 months ago
Perhaps paradise. The browser as a lisp machine, ah... Dreams. The spritely team is making strides to using Guile in WASM, but it's nothing like s expr instead of JSON etc. could have been. https://files.spritely.institute/docs/guile-hoot/0.1.0/Intro...
mighmi commented on How I like to install NixOS (declaratively)   michael.stapelberg.ch/pos... · Posted by u/secure
mighmi · 3 months ago
GUIX is a pleasure
mighmi commented on Building interactive web pages with Guile Hoot   spritely.institute/news/b... · Posted by u/e12e
mighmi · 3 months ago
This is cool. I think I'll try to learn it!
mighmi commented on Methodical Banality   aeon.co/essays/who-needs-... · Posted by u/CharlesW
Calwestjobs · 3 months ago
This is why communist / soviet countries were declining. Most people get confused how can anyone label what happened in those countries as decline, they build factories, they catapulted peasants, serfs into city dwellers, they made huge scientific progress. Those people do not realize that soviet countries did it after it was done in west. For example Large Panel System building so pervasively used in communist block was invented and used 50 years before in England. Inventiveness was limited only into areas that the regime deemed necessary. And even those areas were not free to pursue scientific method, having go back and forth between photos, books and letters from relatives, from west + back and forth between "government ideologist" responsible for "right" way of thinking made any effort to move human endeavor into higher levels impossible.

https://www.socialismrealised.eu/normalistion-everyday-life/

mighmi · 3 months ago
I guess the ussr originally were vibrant and full of innovation but especially the 30s purges killed it off.
mighmi commented on NSA releases 1982 Grace Hopper lecture   nsa.gov/helpful-links/nsa... · Posted by u/gaws
refibrillator · a year ago
I love her sense of humor! One story she tells is about the world’s first computer bug [1], I had never heard it nor the history of the word.

She also mentions they were using computers to enhance satellite photos, it took 3 days to process but they could determine the height of waves in the middle of the pacific and the temperature 20 feet below the surface.

[1] The Bug in the Computer Bug Story

https://daily.jstor.org/the-bug-in-the-computer-bug-story/

mighmi · a year ago
Without detracting from her humor, Thomas Edison and other before him e.g. wrote about bugs in the 19th century: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bug_(engineering)#History

u/mighmi

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I work as a cloud engineer using Go. I am learning Racket to really explore computer science.

Some decades ago, I lurked on oldschool anarchist and blackhat websites, was a script kiddie etc. but long since forgot that world. I'm trying to rediscover it and really appreciate the freedom of the web, the sublime elegance of pre-C/Linux paradigms (SmallTalk, Ada, Lisp, Forth, J/K) and soar the verdant climbs of true power.

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