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I ended up with Hugo, a git repository, and a cron job for the build. I write an article, check it in, the server picks up the git change and rebuilds the site. What I like about the setup is that the server only has the binaries hugo and git, and a shell script for the rebuild. Also, I write in Markdown, add media to the git repository, and articles are published soon after I check in without any remoting on my part.

I did look at WriteFreely after the setup, though. I find the minimalist design very beautiful. Didn't switch to it, but may look at it again for another project. https://github.com/writefreely/writefreely

Trump got what he wanted. You can be certain that right-wing media will spin this as, "the only reason the troops were idle is that the President's quick action quelled the protests."

If you've been following what's been going on in the US, you might have noticed that a judge has been incarcerated there simply for not cooperating with immigration enforcement enthusiastically enough.

Fucked up describes the situation pretty accurately, I'd say, ICC or not.

Oh, look, a political prisoner! We haven't had one of those in a while. Next, we'll find out he had an abortion while wearing drag and smuggling fentanyl across the border. /s

Sigh, I so wish you were wrong...

It was really hard to watch. SCOTUS created this monster executive with unlimited and almost unchecked powers, Biden declared that Trump was a danger to democracy itself, and then... crickets. It was heart-breaking that he didn't even try to curb the limits of power of the Presidency by doing something SCOTUS was going to rule against, handing the next administration everything.

Well, yes: your vote is probably not a conservative vote, so absolutely any reason is good enough to deny you a vote!

I think it's very telling that the conservatives went for ignoring the vote in this case, to use the voting threshold to sink the change. They know their usual arguments are self-contradicting here, so that counting on laziness is their only (and probably successful) hope.

we traced the issue to a 15-year-old Git function with O(N²) complexity and fixed it with an algorithmic change, reducing backup times exponentially.

I feel like there is something wrong with this sentence.

I feel you. That's exactly what Putin did. Get rid of one oligarch so the other ones knew what happens if you don't toe the party line.

I've been to Montpellier in France, where residents never have to pay for public transport, and it's amazing and beautiful how full the trams and buses are all the time. The weird thing is that it benefits the remaining car drivers a lot: if the people in public transportation had to drive around in cars, traffic would come to a complete standstill.

Also counterintuitive: while free public transportation sounds like it might attract the poorest, it does the opposite and reaches into the middle class. The poor never had any other option, but for the middle class it became the better option. Which I think is important, because the middle class has a lot more in common with the lower class, but media prevents one from seeing the other.

That's just the start. After the tax cuts start working their way, there is going to be a massive shortfall in public funding, and then the, "Who could have seen this coming?" will start and then the real Tightening of the Belt.

Well, yes, of course! I mean, for a hundred years Harvard hosted foreign students, but NOW they are a security threat.

It must be really hard to be a lawyer or judge facing these cases, knowing that if you laugh you are going to become the next national security threat.