Ever seen a graffiti of someones name you can't even decipher on the back of a trash can at the far off bus stop near the forest? It's kind of like that.
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Problem is, for every benefit there is a downside and some of the benefits aren't that interesting to me.
Benefits seem to be:
1. Alignment without mixing (which is bad in some languages). I don't align.
2. Code looks the same for everyone. Doesn't need some workarounds if you publish code or present it outside the editor to get your prefered width.
Downside is:
1. I use variable width for some filetypes. People might not agree with that. I wanted to convert all my tabs to 4 spaces when I realized that I've set sass to 2 and sometimes change it to 4. Conversion is possible, but tricky especially if you align.
2. OCD/Perfection clashes. Tabs kind of make sense for indentation.
The problems I have with tabs are:
1. Barely anyone seems to use them anymore.
2. Some languages I like (like YAML) don't allow tabs.
3. Needs some non-standard CSS to get them to display as 4 Spaces in the Browser instead of the overly wide 8. I think GitHub converts them automatically to spaces in the preview to avoid that issue (though your still at 8 then).
I guess I might end up with spaces in the near future. It's kind of a "What I like" vs. "What others use" situation. I don't think there is anything wrong with tabs unless you really have to align your code.
I feel forced to have something on the net that screams "me".
I'm unimportant. But who knows what the future brings? I don't want to feel like _why. And to be honest, the whole archiving is beyond annoying. Barely anything we write is relevant in 10 years. Archive.org saves 99.999999% stuff that will not be looked at or even be of relevance, but might be enough to discredit you or even find you. Why does the internet even need to be this way? For me the internet was always about the present and the future.
How is this possible? How did Adobe leak my address if I don't even have an account?
But at the same time it was pretty much impossible to find a partner while living such a life. No one finds you attractive. Maybe good enough for one night, but not for a relationship.
People say you shouldn't rely on other people to provide you happiness. But a relationship would have added so so much to my life.
What did I do? To be honest, nothing. The only difference now is that I have a job and subtract those hours and I can fill the day with just the more meaningful pastimes on that list. No time left to squander.
I'm not much happier, but of course now I'm an accepted part of society, or is it rather that I'm now indifferent to society?
I was looking forward to things, but the things further away in the future felt so far away (and some still do) that procrastination build a wall around them. I always reached for immediate pleasure. Some of those pleasures are worth something (playing guitar, riding a bike, or as someone commented below just beeing at the beach), but of course worthless to society.
The more distant things I was looking forward to? Finding something I really enjoy doing for more than just a few hours, a real passion. Someone to share my time with. Love.
But as society dictates that you need to provide for yourself those things are unreachable as they either are impossible to reach if you commit to having a job due to having no time, or they are unreachable because you provide of no worth for a partner, or society in general. It even strained friendships even though it didn't affect those "friends" in any way I can imagine.
Heck, that's why its even a bit funny to me because now I'm "okay" in every way, but I'm still the same person. A women might fall in love with me, people accept my, my family accepts me, but the core of my personality is still the same. And because that is the truth I might end up the same if I ever had no job (or wouldn't need one). I guess getting rich (which won't happen but who knows) would be my downfall.
A friend who stayed in touch with me despite all this always said I had so much time to do whatever I wanted, yet I never done anything of value. And my answer to this is, time doesn't really matter. Willpower, passion, sacrifice, those things push you forward. The people who achieve the most don't have 32 hour days. They don't need them because they don't waste a minute.
A bad day might have looked like this:
1. Get up at 11AM.
2. Eat for an hour while watching some Let's Play/V-Log or listening to some podcast.
3. Start reading blogs and learning which after an hour turns into reading bullshit that leaves my brain a day after.
4. Play guitar for two hours.
5. Play videogames for two hours. If lucky with people over skype (the tiniest amount of social interaction for the day)
6. Repeat the eat-watch-routine
7. Lift weights for an hour
8. Repeat the eat-watch-routine
9. Reddit/HN
10. Get bored by the general Reddit/HN and read the weird subreddits instead
11. Do what I call the horny-but-jerking-off-in-5-minutes-is-too-fast routine which I guess releases quite the potent mix of endorphines because I might end up sitting there for an hour with my pants open
12. If nothing good comes up I use my useless amount of private torrent tracker invites to find some porn I've never seen before (which becomes increasingly rare). If I'm too lazy to do that I just browse around and might come across some weird shit like Japanese women squirting milk on each others out of their ass (I guess that's pretty tame in comparison). Not that it matters, my mind is sometimes so numb, I could jerk off to a car accident
13. Lament for an hour where my life has gone while doing Yoga and stretching to bottle up some memories
14. Play a poker freeroll and lose
15. Refocus and write 20 lines of code for a project that I'll never finish in a hundred years
16. Throw a coin. Heads I shower, shave and promise myself tomorrow will be the day everything changes. Tails I contemplate suicide again.
17. Cry myself to sleep if bottled up memories come to light
At the end of the day I'm a better guitarist, one step closer to beeing jacked and one step closer to insanity. That must be the reason why some rockstars are complete lunatics.
* A simple interface (Unlike e.g. Pelican, which uses Makefiles to prettify it's command line interface)
* A sane template engine (Basically ruling out anything Ruby. Jekyll's Liquid engine for example only provides includes, no template inheritance)
* No unnecessary large dependencies like requiring Django
* Freedom of choice (I want to use YAML and Markdown)
* Tightly coupled asset pipeline
* Enough building blocks to quickly solve most usecases
* Should easily be usable on Windows (No makefiles please, no compiler necessary to install)
* Pluggable theming and extension support
Most newer generators solve most of these problems. For some reason most of them are written in Ruby though, which to my surprise has very popular template engines which don't even provide template inheritance.
If the limit is a hard limit it doesn't really matter what nginx decides to do, does it? I had to increase the limit by hand, outside of nginx.
I think I'm good enough, but I'm pretty sure I'm far too slow. I do everything by hand and even though I use stuff like preprocessors and project templates it takes much much longer than what some people are able to hammer out with bootstrap, some modifications to it and a well designed workflow. I test everything and abstract as much as possible (e.g. only use raw SQL for performance rather than beeing lazy about writing models) and that only adds to the amount of time required to accomplish even the smaller stuff.
Though I highly doubt that figure is really that low (or doesn't include bandwith and similar, if applicable) I somewhat wish it was because that would be a sign of craftsmanship.
Unlike other similar companies who spend several hundred thousand dollars over two years just on hosting and go bankrupt, despite getting 1% of the traffic.
buy domain/mail at namecheap with bitcoin -> paypal on my bank account with that address -> pay digital ocean
I wanted to avoid bitcoin and paypal so I came up with a different plan buying a prepaird card and:
buy domain/mail at namecheap with cc -> pay digital ocean with cc.
This makes me wonder if I run into the same trouble in two instances. I don't have a scanner or a camera (believe it or not) so I'd have to run to a friend who lives an hour away. I'd rather avoid that...
The lesson is, always look for a method that does what you want.
I guess namecheap is about as popular as it gets and most European sellers like gandi aren't as cheap, but there is no way for me to know whether choosing a US based domain seller could ever have any adverse effects on me as an European, whether it's censorship, laws, transfer problems, ownership problems or anything I can't even think of.
"I need this in my database but im pretty sure it won't scale, will it?
"I wrote this small gadget to solve a very specific problem that I use quite often, does anyone else have that problem?"
"I'm using library X, how would I subclass Y to allow path prefixes?"
The download link seems to have been fixed so I'll take a look at the packaged version. I reckon it requires nothing more than unpacking and installing the dependencies.
Of course there are installers as well which probably require no user input at all.
* [edit] Download link seems to have been fixed.
* Cloned the repo instead and set everything up. Cloning the submodule for the theme didn't work due to some rights issue. Cloned it by hand then.
* Setup was pretty easy otherwise, even though I'm using the development version.
* [edit] Nevermind. You can signup without the mail sender beeing setup, just not recover the password it seems. Notifications per mail are also disabled. Should have read more carefully.
* No direct link to the interface on the blog index (or am I blind?). Have to add /ghost by hand.
* Rest seems pretty nice, though barebone. No comment system, why? The only benefit to static blogs that is left is the online editor.
While the deaths due to complications seem to be overblown in bodybuilding circles and the overall safety of performance enhancing drugs seems to be rather high it leaves to wonder if that would still be true if athletes would just use everything there is out there. Seeing that bodybuilders probably don't care about endurance, power, nutrient retention and the thousand ways the whole oxygen and glycogen supply chain can be screwed with.