#indieweb 2023-08-15

2023-08-15 UTC
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Loqi [indienews] New post: "Enjoy the difference" https://minutestomidnight.co.uk/blog/enjoy-the-difference/
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cambridgeport90 lxml is so hard to get going on Windows
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cambridgeport90 I tried to get that going with DMArchiver, and eventually I just said the heck with it.
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[tantek] ^ that's a good indienews post
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[tantek] cambridgeport90, sounds like you may be trying to make some #indieweb-dev thing work
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capjamesg Good HN post about building social networks: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37137364
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Loqi [preview] [LeifCarrotson] > How is it possible that we’ve reduced the cost of building scalable applications by multiple orders of magnitude? > You can begin to understand this by starting with a simple observation: you can describe Mastodon (or Twitter, Reddit, Slack...
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[tantek] hah idk about "good" but certainly entertaining. this is a pretty dumb rhetorical tho: "why does it take so long to build something you can describe in hours?" (narrator: because you can't actually fully describe it hours, and anyone claiming they can is horribly naive)
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[tantek] "starting with a simple observation" <-- warning sign
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