As someone who actually writes haiku, I hate the "write a haiku" ChatGPT example as it produces these stilted, lifeless eighth grade poems that people nevertheless copy-paste into their work.
I say this every time one of these pops up: Just do it yourself. Just get a $5 Linode or a Cloudflare account, make a Hugo/Pelican/whatever site and go.
These niche microblogging sites are so small and insignificant that you can never ever trust them to survive (or even persist). Just do it yourself from the very beginning and you'll have a much better time.
True, but (a) it's a fun project, and (b) I wanted something just for my notes, so I can add note-specific commands and generally treat my notes directory as a database I can use Sonse to work with.
Thanks, I'll figure out some screenshots. The list command would display all notes, but maybe I could add some kind of pagination feature. If you have specific ideas, consider adding them to the tracker! [1]
I prefer Mercurial, and as a hobbyist I can afford to stay with it. I know Git has GitHub and all the connectivity of that, but I just truly dislike Git.
How are any of these simpler than "Get VM, install server, rsync files"? Why is the solution always "sign up for a proprietary service that might not exist next year and rig up a bunch of fragile webhooks"?
This isn't one note, it's dozens at least. I wanted a centralised way to organise them, and I wanted to try making something myself. Working on all these files by hand would be tedious and error-prone.
I'm a Windows user, which means dotfiles are even uglier for me. For an app that just needs two tiny variables, environs are the much cleaner solution.