The web is changing. (Nobody denies that, of course.) The biggest changes revolve around money. (And that, as well, is not exactly surprising.)
The impetus of these changes is a shift in perspective by major web companies and media sources—a perspective that is not yet shared by their audiences.
I've been loving Manu's People and Blogs series, but one thing that has caught my eye is how much some people are paying to run their blogs. Sometimes, it's much more than I can afford and, I suspect, more than many beginning bloggers are willing or able to shell out.
So, for you wonderful, creative beginning bloggers, I’ve done some research and put together this guide to blogging on a budget.
"WARNING: This site has been known to cause a mind blowing experience. We recommend you prepare yourself mentally and if possible be sitting down. Side effects may include saving money, letting out a chuckle, and sporadic oinking. "
Well I worked out a way to back up my photos from my phone directly to my computer. Of course, in the process I accidentally deleted all the photos on my phone with a ill-advised rm -r, but at least the ones deleted are backed up to my computer? 🫠
You should be proud of yourself. If you're not, well at least I promise that I'm proud of you. You are awesome and I'm honored to know you. And if I don't know you yet, I look forward to our impending friendship; say hello!
Fighting words, I know. But I still believe it to be true.
I, uh, may have decided to adapt my Clew :Clew: code to make a minimalist interface to search and display questions and answers from StackExchange dumps locally? Here's what I've got after an evening's work.
The idea is you'd grab dumps of sites you're interested in from this handy site, then drop 'em in the ./dumps/ directory and everything else just works.
Source code forthcoming, once I finish and add CC compliance and if it actually turns out to be something useful. (If it is something you think would be handy, let me know!)