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This is my conversational account. For my work follow @ribbonfarm, @breaking_smart, @artofgig. Tweets are 90% vacuous views, apathetically held. Mediocritopian.

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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 14 May 2019
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    I need to get off wordpress in the next few years maybe go all in on pure email and point the domain at zips of markdown files on some repo somewhere suddenly getting a strong premonition of the web dying soon, not just blogging

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      1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 14 May 2019
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        Not dying so much as going underground entirely. Defined as invisible to non-social search.

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      2. midgar zoloft‏ @portal_narlish 14 May 2019
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        didn't the web die in 2005? (or wherever the spawn point of web 2.0 was)

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 14 May 2019
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        No that’s just when we threw the old Usenet-era farts off because they were getting too preachy 😆

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      2. 合田一人‏ @kazundogohda 14 May 2019
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        pretty sure you can just dump a folder of markdown files into your urbit and it will serve up html for you right out of the box

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 14 May 2019
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        I’ve kinda written off urbit

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      2. Alex Stefanescu‏ @catileptic 15 May 2019
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        Give static websites a try. There are several frameworks available: Hugo (Go), Jekyll (Ruby), Pelican (Python), plus some in Rust. No more worrying about plugins and widgets.

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 15 May 2019
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        I’m officially Team Gatsby on that front

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      2. Made in Cosmos  💫 Maria Górska-Piszek‏ @made_in_cosmos 15 May 2019
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        What bugs you the most about WordPress is the maintenance burden, right? I'm curious if you considered switching to a hosted version and why/why not.

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 15 May 2019
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        I use hosted Doesn’t solve plugins and themes being suddenly unsupported forcing a scramble to find alts that are

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      2. Ankur‏ @ankurrsharma 14 May 2019
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        It’ll be interesting if something ipfs takes off

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 14 May 2019
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        I’m not holding my breath there, it’s a small piece of the puzzle that may or may not work out

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