Moreau Vazh

Another push to get people off #substack is prompting IT professionals to write posts about how easy it is to set up your own site.

I beg you to stop. You are not helping. People are reading your posts and thinking 'that seems really complicated... I can' t do that'.

Every single post about self-hosting is literally that Simpsons gag about fixing the foundations to your own house "And if you don't have ceramic stuck-o-lath then aluminium stuck-o-lath will work just as well!"

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Show threadMoreau VazhFeb 26

IT is a really interesting profession... No other profession seems to produce people who think that the highly-technical skills for which they are well paid are just common sense.

Even when Gordon Ramsay made TV shows yelling at rubbish cooks his standpoint was generally a) why didn't you learn this at catering college, b) why haven't your previous employers helped you to develop these skills, and c) why did you decide to open a restaurant despite having no training?

Show threadCharnockFeb 26
@Taskerland "Host your own site"
Show threadMoreau VazhFeb 26
@Printdevil Occultists do resemble IT professionals with blogs in their ability to produce pages of detailed instructions that are impenetrable to anyone who isn't them.
Show threadRoger BW 😷Feb 26
@Taskerland @Printdevil Teaching board games has made me a better teacher of tech.
Show threadCharnockFeb 26

"Just repair your own car, and make your own petroleum distillates"

"Home surgery is easy!"

@RogerBW @Taskerland

Show threadCharnockFeb 26

@Taskerland The art on occult blogs is usually better though.

Luckily I am above reproach as I have no background in any of these things, and the only thing I have detailed knowledge of is that time Doctor Who fought the Spangles.

I do remember working with a really gifted programmer who insisted that all websites should adhere to a template that was easy for him to update/produce/sell. It was based on a triangle. Everyone hated it. (1/2)

Show threadCharnockFeb 26
@Taskerland It looked like the triangle of Solomon, and he kept trying to flog the design to clients and no one was touching it, and no matter how often he explained to me that the template was really flexible and took minutes to create a designed website based on, my argument "no one is commissioning us" seemed to fail to make progress. Everyone wanted flash sites at the time, and it drove him insane clients picked them. (Because flash)
Show threadRoger BW 😷Feb 26
@Printdevil @Taskerland "It's time to teach you the REAL power. Emacs."
Show threadCharnockFeb 26

Yes at a client pitch to get work we always did well explaining Emacs to a small group of behavioural trauma specialists.

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@RogerBW @Taskerland

Show threadGreen screen backgroundFeb 26
@Taskerland pinned/evergreen post 💫
Show threadWill EllwoodFeb 26
@Taskerland Why do you think I host my site on Wordpress? I've occasional thoughts about making something beautiful like https://www.jamesreeves.co/, but it'd become its own hobby.
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Show threadvdonnutFeb 26
@Taskerland "listen, listen. You don't need to use big tech infrastructure. You just need your own domain and open source tech, it's free! Not the domain though, but listen, for 20$ a month you may set up your own website, forum and a communicator! Don't forget about the security and updates and if too many people use it it will cost more and there are additional costs and AI scrapers and..."
Show threadMoreau VazhFeb 26

@vdonnut IT professional with a blog: "It only takes 5 minutes to CSEM an A2M. Once the bespoke kernel's set-up and you've stabilised the quantum-tunnelling from your off-site server it's all doable using the drop-down menus in your bloopi account"

Me, googling acronyms: "Arse to mouth?"

Show threadSin VegaFeb 26
@Taskerland @vdonnut I hosted and did my own blog (wordpress, not from scratch) for a couple of years in 2011 and even I have no idea what the hell these kind of posts are talking about within a couple of sentences