rednafi.com VS dotvim

I don’t like having comments on my blog. I write the posts out of my own necessity and don’t want strangers to stomp on them.

Sometimes if someone finds something useful, they appear at the front page of hackernews and people can discuss it there.

That being said, I never understood the appeal of medium or substack. I have a simple site built with hugo and posting new contents is as easy as doing it on any of those platforms.

Also, people care a wee bit too much about the audience. If your stuff is useful or interesting, people will find it.

site: https://rednafi.com

Honestly I don't think a low JS usage makes a website better. For me, I always cherished a separation of concerns approach, where I am trying to make a website work as good as possible with HTML and CSS only (including print stylesheets).

JS is for me where the fun interaction comes from, where the little details can shine through.

https://cookie.engineer

https://cookie.engineer

I don't have many posts, but some ideas in the pipeline that I'm working on. Planning on documenting a lot more about the hardware tinkering I am doing.

I also added a bunch of secrets and games to the website, with the idea that the source code can be used to explore and learn. There's even an unsolved crypto puzzle in there, but it seems to be a little too hard considering it's been unsolved for over 10 years now.

My dotvim repo [1] contains a statically archived version of all plugins, as to being able to work in case things upstream get unstable or aren't integrated yet with my config.

I'm using a copy of zen.vim [2] which is quite nice because it's basically a git clone which is integrated with vim's native plugin api.

I've also written some cleanup scripts, because people never learn it's bad to upload their readme gifs into the git repos ...

[1] https://github.com/cookiengineer/dotvim

[2] https://github.com/danishprakash/vim-zen