and there you have an unanswerable question! :-)
at an atomic level in computing, as others have said, it's a stream of ones and zeroes..
after that everything else is implementation, i.e how to interpret, use, store etc.
In fact it's one of the "bug bears" in computing that there are so many "data format standards" (used loosely not definitionally)..
or the age old joke:
"The good thing about (data) standards is there are so many of them!"
very cool, thanks for the video, enjoyed it, as well now being aware how easy it would be to 'project this' into something in the future should the need arise :-)
Ok, I get it, I love technical elegance too :-)
But if you'd like people to actually read what you write (and I get just writing for yourself too, I do a lot of that) then they shouldn't be the ones to pay the 'technical debt' IMO
Sadly nobody (nobody = vast majority of users now) knows about RSS anymore..
Text - absolutely, no hyperlinks or images in the actual content - ok. I get it.
However, it's like 10 minutes more work with the basic tools you outline to script outputting this stuff (without changing the base texts) into a browser in html with html links etc established through delivery code (which - html - after all, is the browsers lingua franca). IMO if you're bothering to put out content for users on the internet via http then it seems reasonable to do it in a way that they expect..
just my two penneth worth :-)
This thread (the HN comments) is quite interesting, as opposed to the article which says pretty much nothing and is an email harvesting exercise..
If you're going make a statement such as the title (particularly prefixed with I) then you better say something about your own experience and why you believe your 'title proposition' is true.. if not, and you're not just 'fishing' (for hits and/or email addresses), why bother?
A smattering from my audible listening list which I particularly remember liking (this might actually be a 'less read books' list sorry ;-) ): Michael Palin - Erebus ; Alan Moore - Jerusalem ; Graeme Green - Travel with my Aunt ; Karen Maitland - A Company of Liars ; Louis de Bernieres - Captain Correlli's Mandolin ; Umberto Eco - The Name of the Rose ; Nikolai Gogol - Dead Souls ; Robert Harris - Imperium trilogy ...
I'd second for Master & Margarita and almost anything by Dostoyevsky
At 55 I can relate.
I'm wondering in the tech space whether we happen to be the first generation that has spent our whole professional careers in tech (me electronics first, then computers, then networked systems, then internet systems, with a bit of dev. sprinkled throughout) and thus after 40 years of constant change you (or one) just gets to certain stage?
I know I'm done (at least professionally, I've retired), although I still tinker with tech daily but out of pure interest.
The last prof. gig I had I spent a lot of time thinking why am I spending so much time re-tooling, re-fixing, re-inventing the wheel? :-)
Well done..
Transitions out of mental illness are personal and difficult - telling your story may help.
If you are still suffering you are right you need to get more talking help as that, IMO, will be the key to long term recovery. And I mean long term.
'Shoring up' for the long term is the best you can do for yourself on a practical level now - work, earn, save, clear debts, that's the practical steps.
Medically get all the help you can - be it meds, therapy, new ideas..
Maybe get some new ideas happening for you too? On a philosophical front I mean, I find episodes of depression come with a big slab of "what's the point" and have thus sometimes found (but this is very individual I guess) that exposure to new stuff - meditation, buddhism, books/reflections on philosophy etc helped in the sense of 'seeing a bigger picture'. Getting 'out of oneself' type activities are helpful during episodes IMO as it reduces (a little) that introversion which seems to happen and be quite damaging when in the depth of depression.
I had two years out of work after depression and substance abuse treatment (I managed to keep my job during this period whilst barely functioning for a couple of years, more due to bad HR management than anything I did, i.e. inertia/incompetence on their part). It took 12 months of the out of work time just to get recovery up to a level where I felt I'd be capable of working again, and then another 9 months to actually get a gig..
It's a long road, without light sometimes it feels.. but it will pass if you ensure you keep the minimal practicals together and ensure you get outside help to deal with what's going on in your head. You are absolutely not alone.
Take care and good luck!
S
Extensis Portfolio (commercial) will do this, and can continue to 'watch' folders..
An initial run could relatively straight forwardly be scripted and imported into a db or indexer (mysql, elasticsearch, rethinkdb), but then the problem is there's no UI or updating/sync'ing..