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This resonates. I've found myself weirdly almost embarrassed that my blog is backed by an Evernote notebook, it feels so primitive As a programmer, shouldn't I have written my own CMS??? But works great! And it's way less maintenance and fiddling than a custom CMS
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I remember feeling the “exe is real” feeling on DOS too, but I think it’s more than signaling. It was the maximally robust and portable form of code that was least dependent on user skills or environment. So wanting to make exes was wanting to make the most real thing.
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Here, I’d never run a blog on Evernote. It’s an entirely unnecessary dependency on a piece of proprietary software that has nothing to do with blogging and might evolve in ways that hurt blogging. I still prefer Wordpress because it actually is the exe of blogging.
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Yeah I really worry about the dependency bit, especially considering what a mess the company has been in for ages The tradeoff is worth it to me because it makes the publishing step incredibly low-friction, so I end up publishing more At least I think it's worth it... we'll see
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My way is very creative destructive. Often nothing of the original thought will survive at the other end, or only a core metaphor. I don’t think of it as a production flow, since my output is often as unfinished as my input. It’s phase changes via higher temperatures/pressures.
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That matches my experience actually I misspoke when describing one end of the spectrum as "polished". When I visit things on that end, I always think of rabbitholes I could've/should've gone down. A better description is "expanded", i.e. an essay is an expanded thought fragment
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