5 years ago this week, I was writing the biggest @medium blog in the APAC region, and one of the biggest in the world at the time, with over 120,000 followers.
One night, while drunk, depressed and suicidal, I deleted my Medium account and everything I had ever written. Burned it all down.
A couple of months after that, I came to terms with the fact that I was an alcoholic.
Ever since then, I've been rebuilding my life, my career and my work.
(1/3) I created a step-by-step tutorial for launching and customizing the RStudio server in a container using the Rocker RStudio image 🐳 and the run command 🚀 👇🏼
Setting and running RStudio inside a containerized environment is easier than it seems, thanks to the Rocker project. This tutorial mainly focuses on the docker run command.
(3/3) This is the first tutorial out of a sequence. The next ones are going to cover:
➡️ Formalizing the run command with Docker Compose
➡️ Customizing the Rocker image with additional requirements
➡️ Create a template
➡️ Mount databases (e.g., Postgres, etc.)
I really don’t get why tech-people / developers blog on medium.
It’s such a shit ux with those popups everywhere, and whilst I get that setting up your own blog can be daunting to non-techies, it’s so easy for us tech folks. And cheap.
To those who produce well-written articles that are worthy of being read, but illustrate them with what has quickly become same-old-same-old #AI generated glowy cartoony complex images, I apologise for judging your work by the latter and choosing not to click simply because of them.
It's me, not you, but I'm still not clicking.
Yes, it's my hangup. You're right, I probably do need therapy.
Made my recent journal entry about the story of Liezi into a medium post because why not. Still feels weird to share something that unpolished, but since unpolished jade and unhewn blocks are daoist metaphors after all it's probably fine.
A little late to the party with this episode, but once again I cannot recommend this podcast enough if you're someone interested in media, content, curation, and all adjacent spheres.
[Nouvel article rendu accessible] Médiums : le comparatif
Je m'étais bien marré à faire ça… La première image contient le alt le plus long du blog : la transcription de toutes les cartes de médium. Assistée par gImageReader, j'avais vraiment pas la foi de tout me taper à la main 😅
Perhaps then our emotions are not psychological but ecological, residing within and between the complex of relations that is our environment and our bodies. Maybe we don’t have emotions but, just as we are contained and bound to the places we inhabit, our emotions, rightly understood, locate and bind us to the landscape—our emotions have us.
A few months ago, in an effort to build community on @medium, I wrote a story called "50 Cool #Medium Writers and the States They Call Home."
I've kept updating it as new people have asked to be added to the list. And it now lists members in almost all states with multiples in many. Here's an update and how to be added:
For centuries the way of the world has been this constant cycle of working so you can relax and using that relaxing time to do more work. To go against that means dealing with the guilt that we've got to make ourselves useful.
But what if we got that all wrong? What if the desire to do nothing at all was actually good and very helpful for us.
I don't understand why anyone, in 2024, still has a Medium blog. The experience reading it is terrible and they often hide the content unless you create an account (which I won’t do). So I just close the tab.
Has #Medium done any Fediverse integration so far other than standing up their own Mastodon instance? And, I think, integrated their user database somehow?
@zeh@alcinnz
>have been seeing the worse results from duckduckgo
We're not the only ones who have been complaining about this recently. I was very happy with DDG for years and I still really like the fact that I can search the Free Software Directory by adding !fsd to my keywords. But their general search results have gone massively downhill in the last year or two, and I blame Bing.
#Gigablast ← does their own crawling, but what happened?.. they were dissolved last year & seem to now be www.alltheinternet.com
#Ombrelo ← a proxy but more advanced than the others (filters/downranks Cloudflare sites)
#YaCy is notable because it’s a crawler that you can install and operate yourself. YaCy instances can be public-facing and they can also share indexes with each other fedi style apparently. Some Searx instances tap YaCy instances.
I would love to find a searx or 4get instance that rejects the tech giants, but aggregates from YaCy, mojeek, gigablast, metager, maginalia.nu, frogfind.com, & wiby.me.
And I would love it even more if it would make replacements: