Interesting how the author doubts the integrity of shrinkwrapped floppies. Id expect them to last for ages, it's like a tape backup, just in a circle instead of a ribbon
I’ve encountered a few instances (mostly friends) who have done similar ideas. Around 2007 - 2012 (ish) many corners of India were yet to have access to the Internet (Jio hasn't introduced super cheap, almost free Internet). A few friends did like download Wikipedia and take it to these corners and teach kids.
In my case, a friend/colleague Freeman Murray,[1] had that idea and I told him I will try in my hometown (one of the most remote corner of India). We did and I got a few young kids to be the maintainer, have a few desktop (not Laptop) that they carry around and watch videos to learn to program. It was good while it lasted. Now, those isolated places that I was scared to go alone when I was a kid have fiber Internet connections.
How do you plan to manage 1,000+ posts with HTML and make changes that are similar across all pages, say, the ___location of your static assets (images) or something common like footer, nav, etc?
The idea is to use them as tools that get the job done and get out of the way, while you own the content. All of these tools are easily replaceable and the pipeline can still publish to the final blog ___domain without any worry.
Strikingly similar to mine, except Jekyll instead of Hugo. I don't even build it locally these days. So, Obsidian > Github > Cloudflare.
Jekyll is slow for large content (my blog is huge), Hugo is fast. But I want to stay as mobile and lean as possible. I've tried and with a few changes in the template, I can move from Jekyll to Hugo in a weekend. I've also tried to stay as decoupled as possible from any templating engine (Jekyll), and hence rely mostly on pure HTML + CSS, while Jekyll is used more as the task runner. All the posts are separated by "YYYY" as folders and none of the posts have frontmatter.
I can also move between Github Pages, CloudFlare Pages, Netlify, or Vercel within hours if not minutes by just pointing the DNS to the ones that I want. I did this when Github Pages went down quite a few times about 3 years ago.
I almost went Markdown > Pandoc + Make but not worth it right now.
A few years ago (I think 5+), it was easy to get a username that is un-used. I emailed them why I want it and how I own the ___domain that the username belongs too and Github just give me that.
I have a friend who runs a devices (mostly Laptops and Phones) rental business. Repairs are a key component in their business model. They have a well-established setup powered by processes automated by technology. He is a programmer, who bootstrapped his business into a successful enterprise today.
If you are in India (or more specifically Bangalore), check out his team https://spurge.rentals
I remember advising him to protect his domains with a .com while using an interesting but .com ___domain.
I found Wakie[1] in 2015 while on a project in London. Every morning at a specific time you set, a stranger (real person and no AI) would call you and talk to you briefly, waking you up. I used it for about a month.
There was always a different caller. One thing I vividly remember was when I found it really hard to understand a pretty heavy Scottish accent. I'm not random-social enough to be talking to new people every day, but it was a fun experience. Fun for that short interval but not really my type of thing.
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